Construction Innovation

Martinez Heavy Timber Carpentry Workshop: Heavy timber construction details

1985

Construction System, Heavy Timber Load Bearing Structure

Concrete column base and timber column connection; timber capital where column, beam and braces meet and other timber connection details.

Content of

Project 1 Items

Heavy Timber Carpentry Workshop 1985 to 1986

4207 Arthur Road, 94553, Martinez, CA, U.S.A.

Offices & Workshops, Realized , Construction completed in Apr-1986

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. .

Contents

Photographs 5 Items

SEE ALL Photographs

References

Scientific Research 1 Items

Strong Centers in all Levels of Scale

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 ...

Books 1 Items

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

“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, ...

Book Chapters 1 Items

Chapter 14. Construction Elements as Living Centers, 6/ Unfolding Building Details from the Fundamental Process

Publication,

Articles 1 Items

Harmony and Wholeness - P/A Profile Christopher Alexander 01/06/1986

Publication, Article

Visual & Audio Materials 1 Items

Lecture on "The Nature of Order", given during Fall 1991 14/11/1991

Academic, Audio, Tape

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.