Correspondence

Linz Café: Cover letter with enclosures of a completed folder including all plans, photographs, technical description and an information sheet for the contribution of Christopher Alexander to the “Individual Design Concepts” of the Forum Design

11/09/1979

Design Matters, Proposal Brief

Sender:

Leonie Manhardt, Forum Design: Hochschule für künstlerische und industrielle Gestaltung, Linz, Austria

Recipient:

Christopher Alexander, Center for Environmental Structure , Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Letter

Content of

Project

Linz Café 1980

Linz , Austria

Commercial, Realized , Construction completed in Jul-1980

Client:

Forum Design; Österreichisches Institut für Visuelle Gestaltung - Angela Hareiter

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander

Contractor:

Construction management by the Center for Environmental Structure with local subcontractors

Project cost:

$35.000

Project stages:

Layout on the site by C.E.S. Use of full scale mock-ups Design Development drawings done after layout Direct construction management and on-site design decisions

Built as part of the international exposition "Forum Design" and designed to be "portable". Wooden building overlooking the Danube, with the first floor of the building raised to clear the ten-foot-high river embarkment. Yellow and red exterior, three stories, 2,300 ...

References

Drawings

Forum Design Temporaerer Ausstellungsbau: Set of drawings for the Forum Design temporary exhibit installations 11/09/1979

Architectural Design, Project, Presentation Drawing, Floor Plan, Section, Elevation, Details

Medium:

Blueprint

Scale:

1:200

Five drawings including the Site Plan designating the location of the Linz Café project, Floor Plans, Sections, Elevations, Details .

Photographs

The Linz Café: Photographs of project site 01/01/1979

Project, Site Existing Conditions

Source:

Print

Characteristics:

7"x9 1/2", 6 1/4"x11 1/2", 6 1/4"x23 1/2", B&W

Site recording sets of photos, most of them pasted together to give the feel of the surroundings; five single images and four collage images composed by four photographs each.