Formwork for a concrete bracket

1978

Personal Work of Art, Building Detail

The form of the bracket is made cheaply, by gluing styrofoam together with rubber cement, which allows adjustment on the styrofoam pieces, until the proportions are right.

Created by:

Christopher Alexander

Contents

Drawings

Formwork for a concrete bracket: Sketches 01/01/1978

Sketches, Axonometric, Elevation

Designers:

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

Medium:

Original on Tracing Paper

Size:

8 1/2"x11", 12 1/4"x17 3/4"

Various small pencil sketches for a concrete bracket, all in one page, with some construction and formwork details; built as a construction experiment.

Photographs

Concrete bracket formwork: Photographs of mock-up 01/01/1978

Construction Experiment & Mock-up

Photographer:

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

Source:

Print, Negative

Characteristics:

8"x10", 4"x5", B&W

Photograph of the styrofoam formwork for a concrete bracket, built as a construction experiment.

References

Articles

Sketches of a New Architecture 01/01/1984

Publication, Book Contribution

Authors:

Christopher Alexander

Published in:

Architecture in an Age of Skepticism: A Practitioners' Anthology, pp. 8-27

Editor:

Denys Lasdun

Publisher:

Heinemann, London, U.K.