Book Chapter

Chapter 17. Production of Giant Projects Through High-Speed Adaptive Production, 4 / The Core of the Solution: A Combination of Large Numbers, High Speed, Minute Adaptation, Craft and Cost Control
Chapter 17. Production of Giant Projects Through High-Speed Adaptive Production, 5 / Adaptative Design Emerging within the Whole
Chapter 17. Production of Giant Projects Through High-Speed Adaptive Production, 6 / The Water- jet Cutter
Chapter 17. Production of Giant Projects Through High-Speed Adaptive Production, 7 / Prefabrication of Marble on Fberglass Mats Following by On-site Modification and Context Determined Design Adjustment

Book title:

The Nature of Order – An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe.
Book Three – A Vision of a Living World

Pages:

566-572

Content of

Book

The Nature of Order - An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe. Book Three - A Vision of a Living World 2005

Authors:

Christopher Alexander

Publisher:

The Center for Environmental Structure Publishing, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

No of pages:

697 pp

“A Vision of a Living World”, the third volume of “The Nature of Order” series, presents, for the first time, a full spectrum of Alexander’s and CES built and unbuilt works. The book describes hundreds of buildings, plans, neighborhoods, drawings, ...

References

Scientific Research

Innovative Construction Systems, Techniques and Materials

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Construction Innovation

One of the main topics of research, included in every building project, was to identify, early on in the design process, the material and techniques of construction. This would re-establish building as an art, and allow rapid shaping and adaptation, ...

Construction Innovations

Megaron Mousikis Athinon - Opera House: Multi-colored marble floors, consisting of various sizes and different color marble pieces in geometric and ornamental patterns 2001

Work of Art for Project, Prefabricated Marble Floor

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Randall Schmidt, Demetrius Golzalez, Larry Berk, Bankoku Sasagawa

Prefabrication of marble floors for the concourse areas of about 8.000 m2, in sections of about two feet by four feet, assembled on a fiberglass matt, with the marble pieces being glued with epoxy to the mat. Individual pieces were ...