Fort Mason Bench: Ornamental terrazzo panels

A three-tiered masonry public bench and centerpiece, on the Fort Mason pier, overlooking Alcatraz Island. It was built within three weeks as part of the "Spirit in Design" workshop, beginning on 24-Mar-1984 following an announcement in "CoEvolution Quarterly". The main intent ...

7 pages with ornament sketches, proposals for the terrazzo panels to be placed on the vertical surfaces of the bench as indicated on elevation and perspective sketches. Individual patterns include animal, plant and geometric figures. .

Photographs of three terrazzo panels with animals, at the resting back of the bench.

Two photographs of the six terrazzo panels with animals, flowers and geometric patterns at the resting back of the bench.

Six photographs illustrating some steps of the process of making the terrazzo ornaments at the side and back walls of the bench.

Ornament arises as part of the design process, when a person is making and seeks to embellish this "something" while making it. It arises as a result of the latent centers in the uncompleted thing requiring still more centers, requiring ...

“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, ...