Harmony and Wholeness – P/A Profile Christopher Alexander
01/06/1986
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C.E.S. Office - Martinez House
1977 to
1984
The second building completed on the Martinez site, was a 2,000 square feet house. A gunite all-concrete building as well, it was the first sizable and fully functional project in which C.E.S. used gunite, while applying all permit and specification ...
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Linz Café
1980
Built as part of the international exposition "Forum Design" and designed to be "portable". Wooden building overlooking the Danube, with the first floor of the building raised to clear the ten-foot-high river embarkment. Yellow and red exterior, three stories, 2,300 ...
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Sala House
1981 to
1983
Three-story tower, 20 feet by 20 feet in plan on each floor, on a wooded, sloping site. The interior structure of the house is wood post and beam with pine panelling and hand-painted surfaces, and the exterior is a red ...
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Sala House: Hand-painted children's bedroom alcoves
1983
The painting of the children's room with two bed alcoves, involved both Christopher Alexander and Andre Sala; it started with discussions about color between the two and continued with testing bits of cardboard painted and pinned up in the walls. ...
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C.E.S. Office - Martinez House: Terrazzo floor with squares, diamonds and crosses
1984
Red, yellow and blue polished terrazzo floor with squares, diamonds and crosses made on a 400 sq. ft of a living room; with styrofoam lost form technique.
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Martinez Heavy Timber Carpentry Workshop: Heavy timber construction details
1985
Concrete column base and timber column connection; timber capital where column, beam and braces meet and other timber connection details.
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