Go Back
West Dean College Gardens Visitor’s Center: Massive thick structural walls with poured concrete, blocks and bricks
1994Construction of perimeter and transverse structural walls, eighteen inches to two feet thick. The materials used was an integrated poured combination of bricks, concrete, flint, stone and massive blocks and insulation working together as a single structural wall, because of the interlock of the different elements with the poured concrete. The spacing of the transverse walls is unequal, caused by necessary positions which relate to the structure.
Contents
-
West Dean College Gardens Visitor's Center - Massive thick structural walls with concrete, blocks and bricks: Plinth of perimeter wall under construction - Photographs
01/07/1994
Constructing the plinth of the perimeter thick wall.
-
West Dean College Gardens Visitor's Center - Massive thick structural walls with concrete, blocks and bricks: Perimeter wall under construction - Photographs
01/09/1994
Two views from the process of constructing the perimeter thick wall, using a combination of concrete, concrete blocks, bricks and flint.
-
West Dean College Gardens Visitor's Center - Massive thick structural walls with concrete, blocks and bricks: Thick walls under construction - Photographs
01/12/1994
Two views of thick wall construction details, during construction.
References
-
Wholeness as a Tangible and Objective Quality: The Mirror of the Self
In any process of design or making, the next step which is most structure-enhancing, is that step which most intensifies the feeling of the emerging whole. What ultimately matters in this process is that the work produced generates feeling in ...
-
Innovative Construction Systems, Techniques and Materials
One of the main topics of research, included in every building project, was to identify, early on in the design process, the material and techniques of construction. This would re-establish building as an art, and allow rapid shaping and adaptation, ...
-
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 ...
-
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, ...