Book Chapter

Chapter 4. Large Public Buildings, 13 / Setting up a Design / Management / Construction Organization for a $16 Million Building

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:

148-150

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

A New Approach to Design and Construction Management

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Construction Process

A new kind of design/construction/management process, especially for large projects, is required, which will allow the building to be conceived, designed and built so that it comes to life. Below are the ground rules of such a process, already tried ...

Projects

Mary Rose Museum 1991 to 1993

Portsmouth, Hampshire, U.K.

Civic, Designed , Not built

Client:

The Mary Rose Trust - Mr. John Vimpany & Dr. Brian Hanson

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Gary Black, Miyoko Tsutsui, Annie der Bedrossian

Project cost:

Expected construction cost: $15,000,000

Design and construction process:

The following are the major sequential steps of the design process: 1) Defining a word-picture of generic centers 2) Structure preserving emergence of the building volume from the urban landscape 3) The rough sketch design 4) Obtaining the structural design 5) Money distribution 6) Distribution of the main mass concrete of the building 7) Working through the finer materials, concrete, brick and stone with special regard for light and color

Project stages:

Design Development stage in progress Construction management rules and process Innovative construction methods

Museum for Henry VIII's ship, sank in 1547, raised in 1982, and then preserved in a dry dock next to HMS Victory. The museum, with an area of construction of about 8,000 square meters, was to be built over dry ...