Correspondence

Neighborhood of Five Houses: Transmitting a framing subcontract for reviewing and endorsing; it is a revised document with changes illustrated in attached sketches. The document copy includes the endorsement signature

18/01/1995

Construction Works, Request for Feedback

Sender:

Saul Pichardo, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Recipient:

William C. Bagwell, Center for Environmental Structure , Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Fax

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 ...

References

Records

Neighborhood of Five Houses: Craftsman/Subcontractor Agreement 27/01/1995

Project, Construction Works, Subcontracting Services

Authors:

William C. Bagwell, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Eddie Tausch, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Barton Coffman, Barton Coffman & Co., U.S.A.
Shannon Slachter, U.S.A.

Four subcontracts between the Center for Environmental Structure and 1) Eddie Tausch for the construction of foundations and stem walls; 2) Barton Coffman for completing the timber frame finishing; signed on 01-Jan-1995; 3) Shannon Slachter for rough and finish framing; ...