Moore House: Survey Drawings

17/09/1998

Architectural Design, Survey Drawing

Survey drawing including the location of the trees with their elevation, and the recording of the two stakes and the ribbon which represent the early staking of the house location on site by the architect.

Designers:

Charles Billings, Carrboro, NC, U.S.A.

Medium:

Photocopy

Size:

8 1/2"x11"

Scale:

1"=60'

Content of

Project

House for Helen and Myles Moore 1996 to 2000

Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A.

Residential, Designed , Not built

Client:

Mr. & Mrs. Myles and Helen Moore

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Randall Schmidt, Seth Wachtel

Project stages:

Preliminary Design

Cast masonry and metal-framed house for chemically sensitive client.

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 ...

Correspondence

Moore House: Request for additional surveying work to locate and identify thirty five trees and early staking on site; includes four 8 1/2"x14" marked up survey drawings 29/09/1998

Project, Design Matters, Subcontracting Services

Sender:

Randall Schmidt, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Recipient:

Charlie Billings, Freehold Land Surveys Inc., Carrboro, NC, U.S.A.

Medium:

Letter