Building Process Area of Emphasis: Construction experience course – Introduction to Construction

Fall 1995

The course included weekly work on site under the tutelage of a supervisor and attendance of a lecture every other week. The students procuded terrazzo tiles for an outdoor deck in the Berkeley hills; the five students completed the production of 850 tiles by 15-Dec-1995.

University Program:

Master of Architecture

Course type:

Elementary Construction Experience

Course number:

Arch. 263A

Instructors:

Randall Schmidt

Enrolled students:

Jeff Clark, Eric Davis, and three more

Contents

Course Material

Arch 263A, Fall 1995 - Terrazzo Tile Making: Construction experience course within the Building Process Area of Emphasis 01/09/1995

Student Work, Paper

Authors:

Jeff Clark, Eric Davis, University of California Berkeley, College of Environmental Design, Department of Architecture, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Short paper for Architecture 263A, describing the process followed for the production of terrazzo tiles, including photographs from the sequential steps.

References

Construction Innovations

Sullivan House: Blue and white terrazzo floor 1995

Work of Art for Project, Terrazzo Work

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Randy Schmidt, Katalin Bende

850 hand-made tiles with flower, cast in blue and white terrazzo, ground and polished for the terrace floor; mockups and experimentation for developing the flower mold and the way of making them were developed in a construction course, and the ...

Photographs

The Sullivan House: Blue and white terrazzo floor for the house terrace - Photographs of mock-up 01/01/1995

Construction Innovation, Mock-up, Construction Process

Photographer:

Katalin Bende/C.E.S., Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

Color

Nine photographs giving a general overview of the floor tiles making sequence, the first one being the flower mold and the last one a sample of the tile produced for the terrazzo floor. This was the process followed for the ...