Construction Innovation

Second Sala House: Concrete floor with leopard inserts

1987

Work of Art for Project, Ornament

Red concrete floor with yellow ceramic leopard inserts for the interior of second Sala House.

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Steven Duff

Content of

Project

Sala House Addition 1986 to 1988

700 Hillside, 94706, Albany, CA, U.S.A.

Residential, Realized , Construction completed in Jan-1988

Client:

Mr. & Mrs. Andre and Anna Sala

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Steven Duff, Kleoniki Tsotropoulou

Contractor:

Center for Environmetal Structure

Project cost:

$80,000

Project stages:

Layout on the site by clients and C.E.S. Design Development and Building Permit drawings done after layout Use of full scale mock-ups Direct Construction management along with on-site design decisions Budget and subcontractors under C.E.S. control

Two-storey 700 square feet addition to the exisitng house, connected with it at the west facing wall. The extension includes a living room, a bedroom and a bathroom with hot tub. Wood post and beam interior with pine paneling ...

Contents

Photographs

References

Scientific Research

Ornament and Function as Products of Unfolding

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Structure Preserving Transformations

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 ...

Books

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, ...

Book Chapters

Chapter 18. Ornament as Part of all Unfolding, 7 / Making Lifelike Animals and Plants in the Fabric of the Building

Publication,

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:

602-606