West Dean College Gardens Visitor’s Center: Door and window shaping
1995The window shapes in relation to the treatment of surrounding wall formed strong centers. The window itself, beautifully shaped and specially made with curved sash. The window surround, cast concrete; beyond the cast concrete herringbone brickwork. Below the window, emphasizing the center even further, are bands of alternating flint and stone and concrete and brick. In other instances, large and tall windows, with arched head, in plain plasterd south-facing walls, with multiple curved glazing bars, formed centers in all levels scales.
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West Dean College Gardens Visitor's Center - Door and window shaping: Design Development Drawings - Entrance types
28/02/1994
Six-page set of elevation drawings for five doors and one window type, depicting their mulion subdivision of the glass, each with a code name.
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West Dean College Gardens Visitor's Center - Door and window shaping: Preliminary Design - Window mullions
01/01/1994
Three rough sketches working out the mullion thicknesses of the large windows of the south elevation .
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West Dean College Gardens Visitor's Center - Door and window shaping: Design Development Drawings - Door and window schedule
01/01/1996
Eight-page set of elevation drawings and detailed information for each window and door type. The first drawing illustrates the window and door casing, jamb and mullion profiles with code reference to each one of the window and door designs depicted ...
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West Dean College Gardens Visitor's Center - Door and window shaping: Photographs of windows during the process of visualizing them
01/09/1994
The bay window in the foyer of the dining room, while being shaped. Standing on the open slab and looking into the garden, for grasping the character of the bay window.
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West Dean College Gardens Visitor's Center - Door and window shaping: Photographs of windows during the process of visualizing them
01/09/1994
By placing chairs and sitting down it was possible to get a first fix on the position, size, width and splay of the dining room large window openings.
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West Dean College Gardens Visitor's Center - Door and window shaping: Photographs
01/08/1995
The bay window in the foyer of the dining room, looking into the gardens, during the last phase of its construction.
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References
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Ornament and Function as Products of Unfolding
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 ...
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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 ...
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The Nature of Order - An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe.
Book Four - The Luminous Ground
2004
“The Luminous Ground” is the fourth and last volume of “The Nature of Order” series. In this volume, Alexander attempts to show the cosmological underpinning of the nature of order. The book has two goals. First, to show that the ...
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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, ...
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Chapter 5. The Practical Matters of Forging a Living Center, 4 / Beings in Arches, Spaces and Columns: The Example of West Dean
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Chapter 5. The Practical Matters of Forging a Living Center, 6 / Detailed Design of the Structural Columns
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Chapter 14. Construction Elements as Living Centers, 6/ Unfolding Building Details from the Fundamental Process