Julian Street Inn – Shelter for the Homeless: Column capitals with ornamental details

Design and construction of a shelter for homeless people, to serve 50 to 100 people, on a site of 13,000 sf. The building of 15,000 square feet includes offices, living areas with a dining hall, sleeping rooms, courtyards and gardens. ...

Two drawings with details of the precast columns and their capitals with ornaments, and of the fabrication and assembly procedure .

Subcontract Agreement for the construction of decorative columns and the column capitals with ornamental details, lobby ceiling beams, the dining hall lacework concrete trusses, etc.; reference to drawings and specifications are noted.

3-page detailed cost breakdown of the twenty precast concrete columns of the arcade .

Structural clarifications on the details of the arcade decorative column construction. Two clarification versions.

Photograph of two columns with their capitals, built as mock-ups for testing geometry and construction techniques.

Two photographs of the details on the capital of an arcade column.

Two images of the details on the capital of an arcade column.

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 ...

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 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, ...

15-page paper describing the steps taken towards the making of a precast column and ornamental capital, for the first floor arcade of the residence building, in the San Jose Shelter for the Homeless project. Included are numerous photographs illustrating the ...