Drawing

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

Sketches, Elevation

Two sketches describing the earlier idea of a scissors truss forming a three-foiled cusped truss.

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Content of

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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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 ...