Haworth New Office Furniture System: Floor Patterns / Sweet Potatoes Offices and Workshops: Floor Patterns – Design Development Drawings

01/12/1985

Design Development, Axonometric, Floor Plan

Seven sheets of ink hardline drawings of floor patters with dimensions; the floor patterns depicted in the two axonometries and the respective plans were used in the project.

Designers:

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

Medium:

Original on Vellum

Size:

8 1/2"x11"

Scale:

1 1/2"=1'

Content of

Construction Innovation

Haworth New Office Furniture System: Floor pattenrs / Sweet Potatoes Offices and Workshops: Floor pattenrs 1985

Work of Art for Project, Office Space Element, Ornament

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Artemis Anninou, Gary Black

Floor constructed of varnished pine blocks in a variety of patterns. Two different paterns were initially built for the Sweet Potatoes floors, and then developed as an office space element for the Haworth New Office Furniture System, with ornamental qualities.

Contents

Drawings

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References

Scientific Research

Ornament and Function as Products of Unfolding

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Structure Preserving Transformations

Ornament arises as part of the design process, when a person is making and seeks to embellish this "something" while making it. It arises as a result of the latent centers in the uncompleted thing requiring still more centers, requiring ...

Drawings

Sweet Potatoes Offices and Workshops: Presentation Drawing - Floor Patterns 01/03/1985

Architectural Design, Project, Presentation Drawing, Floor Plan

Designers:

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

Medium:

Blueprint

Size:

12"x24"

Scale:

3/8"=1'

A floor plan of the workshop and the office spaces, depicting the wood floor patterns implemented.

Photographs

Haworth New Office Furniture System: Floor Pattenrs / Sweet Potatoes Offices and Workshops: Floor Pattenrs _Photographs of mock-up 01/01/1985

Construction Innovation, Mock-up, Focus on Details

Photographer:

Artemis Anninou/C.E.S., Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital, Slide

Characteristics:

Color

Four photographs. The first two show the two floor patterns as installed, and two more show mock-ups of floor patterns not chosen for installation.