Drawing

LaMar-Price House: Preliminary Design Drawings – Building layout on site

17/09/1994

Architectural Design, Preliminary Design, Layout Process

Serpentine Version 2, dated 17-Sep-1994 is noted on the drawing. Christopher Alexander’s second revised proposal of the building layout staked on site, overlaid with thick continuous line above the initial layout.

Designers:

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

Medium:

Photocopy

Size:

8 1/2"x11"

Scale:

1:20

Content of

Project

House and Spiritual Retrat for Mary LaMar 1993 to 1995

Lake Tomahawk, WI, U.S.A.

Residential, Designed , Not built

Client:

Mrs. Mary LaMar and Mr. Michael Price

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Randall Schmidt, James Maguire

Project stages:

Preliminary Design

References

Scientific Research

The Layout Process of Buildings on the Land - Visualization at Full Scale on Site

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Step by Step Process

Each act of building needs to have a positive effect on its surroundings; to complete them, preserve their structure, make them better, by creating strong centers in them and next to them. Each new building is more alive when it ...

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LaMar-Price House: Preliminary Design Drawings - Building layout on site

Architectural Design, Project, Preliminary Design, Layout Process

Medium:

Photocopy

Size:

8 1/2"x11"

Scale:

1:20

Initial proposal of the building layout staked on site.

Photographs

LaMar-Price House: Photographs of layout process on the land 14/09/1994

Project, Layout Process on Site

Photographer:

Randall Schmidt/C.E.S., Rhinelander, WI, U.S.A.

Source:

Print, Negative

Characteristics:

4"x6", 35mm, Color

Nine photographs of the “C.A.” stake-out version; some photos are taped together to show panorama and full height of trees.