Correspondence

Neighborhood of Five Houses: Letter to all family members providing analysis of the budget and how it has been used so far, per property. Includes new requests to each family, providing the change orders necessary with estimated costs. Proposing solution to financing the tile roofs for the sake of better quality

15/06/1995

Financial, Budget

Sender:

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

Recipient:

Geoffrey Gioja, Linda Gioja, Mike Goddu, Patricia Goddu, Jim Heisey, Sylvia Heisey, Austin, TX, U.S.A.

Medium:

Letter

Content of

Project

Neighborhood of Five Houses 1992 to 1995

Lake Travis, Austin, TX, U.S.A.

Residential, Realized , Construction completed in 1995

Client:

Representative - Mrs. Linda Gioja

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Saul Pichardo, Randall Schmidt

Contractor:

Center for Environmetal Structure with Carl Lindberg

Project cost:

Total project price: $800,000

Project stages:

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

Cluster of five houses with common land and communal structures, located on Lake Travis, outside Austin, Texas; only three out of the initial five houses were built. The three house designs were made in close consultation with each family, which ...