Berryessa Terraced House: Sketches of elevations

01/02/1981

Architectural Design, Sketches, Elevation

Three pages with various early sketch studies of elevations. The first page includes various Northwest and Southwest elevations of the main volume, the tower, the bedroom building and the lower volume of the living room and the kitchen. The second page with the main volume elevation is titled “Main cottage from below”, and the third one “West elevation of the kitchen”.

Designers:

Christopher Alexander, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Original on Tracing Paper, Photocopy

Size:

13"x15 3/4", 6"x8 1/2", 12"x14"

Content of

Project

House for John and Mara Lighty 1981 to 1989

2675 Harness Drive, Berryessa Estates, Pope Valley, Napa County, CA, U.S.A.

Residential, Realized , Construction completed in Aug-1989

Client:

Mr. & Mrs. John and Mara Lighty

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Artemis Anninou, Gary Black, Gernot Mittersteiner

Contractor:

Center for Environmetal Structure

Project cost:

$72,788

Project stages:

Layout on the site by clients and C.E.S. Design Development and Building Permit drawings done after layout Use of full scale mock-ups Direct construction management and on-site design decisions Users involved in the construction Innovative constructi

Terraced house built for a couple; the house consists of six building volumes, gracefully positioned on a wooded slope among white oak trees, and includes the living room - kitchen volume, the studio volume, the bedroom - library volume, a ...

Contents

Drawings

References

Photographs

Berryessa Terraced House: Photographs of sketches 01/02/1981

Project, Drawing

Photographer:

Christopher Alexander/C.E.S., Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Print, Negative

Characteristics:

8 1/2"x11", 4"x 4 3/4", B&W

Three early sketches of elevations by Christopher Alexander.