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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.

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Gary Black, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Content of

Construction Innovation

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

Construction System, Sprayed Concrete

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Gary Black, Carl Lindberg, Avery Miller, James Maguire

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

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

Client:

Housing for Independent People - Al DiLudovico, Executive Director

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Gary Black, Artemis Anninou, Carl Lindberg, James Maguire, Eleni Coromvli, Kleoniki Tsotropoulou

Contractor:

Oliver and Company, with Center for Environmetal Structure as major specialty subcontractor

Project cost:

$1,700,000

Project stages:

Pattern language for project by clients and C.E.S. Layout by clients and C.E.S. Use of full scale mock-ups Design Development and Building Permit drawings Direct Construction management and on-site design decisions Budget and subcontractors under C.E

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

The Julian Street Inn - Shelter for Homeless: Open lacework concrete trusses shot in place with gunite - Outline sketches 01/01/1987

Construction Innovation, Sketches, Elevation

Designers:

Christopher Alexander, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Original on Paper

Size:

8 1/2"x11"

Two sketches of the first idea of tracery of an open lattice truss called “floral truss”: The first sketch depicts a building section and focuses on the proportions of the truss and overall dining room space; and the second sketch ...

Photographs

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

Photographer:

Christopher Alexander/C.E.S., Martinez, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

B&W

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 ...