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Linz Café: “Aperiodic” grid of the timber post and beam structural frame
1980Post and beam structural system which fits the structure of the spaces initially conceived, and is based on a structural grid with differentiated spacing of the grid lines in both directions, long and short, keeping the variations regular. The use of the aperiodic structural grid enabled a spacing fitted organically to the nature of the spaces in the building.
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Linz Café: Wooden building, post and beam construction - Photographs of drawings
01/01/1980
Two sketches of the building structural grid for each floor and two more focusing on the relashionship of the structural grid to the spaces of the café. The structural system was based on a perfect grid, with a spacing that ...
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Linz Café: Wooden building, post and beam construction - Photographs
01/01/1980
View of the post and beam structural system used, clearly visible in the interior; based on a perfect grid, with a spacing that is fitted organically to the nature of the spaces in the building. The photo was exhibited during the ...
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Geometry and Fifteen Fundamental Properties
Christopher Alexander recognized the importance of the geometry of centers and for years he was looking for the common structural features among buildings, paintings, streets, carpets, doors, windows, etc. which have "life" and "wholeness". He identified fifteen structural features which ...
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Emergence of Geometric Order in Building Structure
Focusing primarily on the pure beauty of the geometric order, which comes, above all, from the building structure (columns, walls, beams, vaults and so forth), specifically from the aperiodic grids which form the abstract underpinning of the building structure.