Julian Street Inn – Shelter for the Homeless: Exterior wall cladding with hand-painted and hand-glazed tilework

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. ...

Three sets of cardboard mockups, in actual size, depicting the sequence of the pattern and color studies for the tiles. The first set includes one mock-up with four early pencil sketches of the tile pattern drawn at full scale in ...

Sequence of four sketches titled “Simplicity and Nothing”, developed as studies of tile patterns, applying the property of simplicity in the formation of a tile design.

Sequence of three sketches titled “Process of Creating Centers”, depicting the centering process for developing a tile design to be used in the San Jose Shelter for the Homeless.

Study of the proportional distribution of color and materials between the first and the second floor parts of the building’s exterior elevations; it includes a hardline drawing of a wall segment elevation colored locally, and a color sketch of a ...

Four handwritten pages including contact information, tile specifications, production time estimations, transportation service used and some costs, as specified by various tile manufacturers located near the project area.

5 pages with sketches indicating the underglaze color layouts and names as seen on the actual tiles fired during the testing process; in search of the correct underglaze to be used for the tiles.

Change order referring to the signing of a subcontract for $2000.00 with the Center of Environmental Structure for terracotta tile inserts into slab edges; the fabrication and installation of the ornamental tiles for the exterior wall cladding was one of ...

Photograph of an early working model of a section of the building wall for testing the relationhip between the recessed bays on the ground floor with the cladding of the second floor wall with tilework.

Photograph of an early small panel mock-up composed of plain concrete and terracota tiles to check their level of color contrast.

Eighteen photographs of a sequence of sketches by Christopher Alexander together with colored mock-ups of the design either on tiles or cardboard, depicting the unfolding of the tile pattern from a simple flower design, to a geometric pattern with rhombs, ...

Christopher Alexander postulated that centers and the field of centers they create are the building blocks from which wholeness is made. However, he further argued that geometry alone is not sufficient, and that color is the way wholeness comes to ...

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 ...

“The Process of Creating Life”, the second volume of “The Nature of Order” series presents a dynamic theory of living structure. It begins with an analysis of transformations, which occur in nature, and the distinction between structure-preserving transformations, responsible for ...

Five boards in Science Cabinet #1 of the exhibit illustrated the concept of ‘Order-creating process’. The boards include a mixture of sketches of tile patterns, full scale colored cardboard mock-ups, actual painted tile mock-ups, as well as one photograph of ...