Drawing

The Julian Street Inn – Shelter for Homeless: Open lacework concrete trusses shot in place with gunite – Outline sketches

01/01/1987

Sketches, Elevation

Five sketches depicting the last floral, three-foiled cusped truss design. The first sketch depicts the complete truss design, the second illustrates the finite element analysis of the tension arch, and the following three pages depict a number of small sketches of truss details, mainly of the lily shaped crone of the arch and its supporting ends.

Designers:

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

Medium:

Original on Paper

Size:

8 1/2"x11"

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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Records

The Julian Street Inn - Shelter for the Homeless: Open lacework concrete trusses shot in place with gunite: Structural element analysis run for truss #5 - Final Lily truss 03/08/1987

Construction Innovation, Design Matters, Calculations

Authors:

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

Truss #5 draft structural analysis containing 36 pages of complete computer-run data of the final concrete lace truss dated 3-Aug-1987.

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 ...