Drawing

Sweet Potatoes Offices and Workshops: Wall Frieze – Preliminary Design Drawings

01/03/1985

Preliminary Design, Perspective, Elevation, Details

Six pages with pen and pencil dimensioned sketches of different versions of wall frieze, including construction details and cost information for the one finally used .

Designers:

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

Medium:

Original on Paper

Size:

8 1/2"x11"

Content of

Construction Innovation 1 Items

Haworth New Office Furniture System: Wall frieze / Sweet Potatoes Offices and Workshops: Wall frieze 1985

Work of Art for Project, Office Space Element, Ornament

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Artemis Anninou, Gary Black

Interior wall frieze, a zone which goes around the wall below the ceiling, with ornaments in cut-plank wood or painted decorations in it. Initially built in the upper part of entrance room wall of the Sweet Potatoes Offices and Workshops, ...

References

Scientific Research 1 Items

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 1 Items

Haworth New Office Furniture System: Wall Frieze - 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"

Scale:

1 1/2"=1'

Two sheets of ink hardline drawings of the ornamental interior wall frieze; includes axonometric, elevation and sections with basic dimensions.

Photographs 3 Items