Drawing

Sweet Potatoes Offices and Workshops: Thick Wall with Catalog Counter – Preliminary Design Drawings

01/03/1985

Preliminary Design, Section, Elevation

One sheet with pencil hardline section and elevation development drawings with construction details and dimensioning.

Designers:

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

Medium:

Original on Tracing Paper

Size:

12"x24"

Scale:

1"=1'

Content of

Construction Innovation

Sweet Potatoes Offices and Workshops: Thick Walls 1985

Construction System, Monocoque Construction

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Artemis Anninou, Gary Black

A custom made set of thick wall components, all premanufactured with the same height, standardized thickness, and a variety of standardized lengths, to enable the realization of a variety of rooms, as they were laid out by the users. ...

References

Drawings

Haworth New Office Furniture System / Sweet Potatoes Offices and Workshops: Thick Wall with Catalog Counter - Design Development Drawings 01/12/1985

Construction Innovation, Design Development, Axonometric, Section, Elevation

Designers:

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

Medium:

Original on Vellum

Size:

8 1/2"x11", 10"x13"

Scale:

1 1/2"=1'

Four sheets of ink hardline drawings of the thick wall panel with catalog counter, used as one of the walls in a personal office in Sweet Potatoes; includes axonometric, elevation and sections with basic dimensions.

Photographs

Sweet Potatoes Offices and Workshops: Thick Wall with Catalog Counter - Photographs 01/01/1985

Construction Innovation, Interior View, Work in Progress

Photographer:

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

Source:

Digital, Slide

Characteristics:

Color

Four photographs of the thick wall with the sloping top catalog counter. The first one depicts the fully installed and in use catalogue counter. The next two show the thick wall in the premises, before being installed, next to other ...