Martinez Heavy Timber Carpentry Workshop: Heavy timber construction details

The third building completed on the Martinez site was a heavy timber carpentry workshop, 800 square feet of floor area, with 12"x12" columns and 8"x14" beams, specially engineered trusses and wood paneling. .

Views of the timber posts with the mortises and tenons shaped for connecting the posts to their concrete base.

Three photographs of construction drawings with details, the first one showing the connection of the corner column with two beams, the second the footing-column connection and the third the details of the perimeter x-bracing joints.

Photographs of two sketches by Christopher Alexander showing the connection of the column to the concrete base through a square steel pin.

A building can only amount to something as a living thing when the various physical elements which appear in it are profound centers. The dominant feature of the process that is working correctly is that new centers are formed, and ...

“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, ...

Cassette tape of the nineteenth Fall semester lecture by Christopher Alexander on “Actual Making & Construction Details”, part of a series of lectures on “The Nature of Order”; the duration of the lecture is about one hour and twenty minutes.