The Julian Street Inn – Shelter for the Homeless: Open lacework concrete trusses shot in place with gunite – Structural element analysis run for truss #3 – Floral truss

08/05/1987

Design Matters, Calculations

Truss #3 element analysis includes two parts: Part 1 contains 10 pages of initial, hand-calculated load distribution on the joints and frame-members performed on 23-Apr-1987; and part 2 contains 7 pages of computer runs studying load distribution on the joints and frame-members run on 8-May-1987.

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Construction Innovation 1 Items

Julian Street Inn - Shelter for the Homeless: Lacework concrete trusses with curved members shot in the air 1988

Construction System, Sprayed Concrete

The dining hall of Julian street inn is the higher building volume of the complex; the hall, a sigle room, 30 feet wide and 50 feet long, was intended to seat about 100 people. When the shape of the volume ...

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Projects 1 Items

Julian Street Inn - Shelter for the Homeless 1986 to 1990

Julian St. & Montgomery St., San Jose, CA, U.S.A.

Civic, Realized , Construction completed in 1989; final interior painting in 1990

Design and construction of a shelter for homeless people, to serve 50 to 100 people, on a site of 13,000 sf. The building of 15,000 square feet includes offices, living areas with a dining hall, sleeping rooms, courtyards and gardens. ...

Drawings 1 Items

The Julian Street Inn - Shelter for Homeless: Open lacework concrete trusses shot in place with gunite - Sketches 2 2) Finite element model 01/01/1987

Construction Innovation, Sketches, Elevation

Two sketches of the first idea of tracery on three-foiled cusped truss called “floral” truss.

Photographs 1 Items

The Julian Street Inn - Shelter for Homeless: Lacework concrete trusses with curved members shot in the air - Photographs of sketches depicting design process 01/01/1987

Construction Innovation, Sketches, Design Process

Eighteen photographs of a sequence of sketches by Christopher Alexander on the shaping of the concrete truss in relation to its structural analysis; it starts with an early idea, then follow nine photographs of five alternatives, and the final eight ...