Berryessa Terraced House: Preliminary Design Drawings – Details

01/05/1981

Architectural Design, Preliminary Design, Axonometric, Section

Three groups of hardline pencil drawings with information focusing on building construction details and building sections: 1) It lays out various sections through individual building volumes and composite building volumes; 2) It depicts various detail sections with structural information for the buildings; 3) Axonometric drawing depicting various wood connection of post and beam, beam and beam connections. In addition, these drawings comprise studies of drawing sheet layouts for the permit drawings.

Designers:

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

Medium:

Original on Tracing Paper

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