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

01/03/1985

Preliminary Design, Floor Plan, Section, Elevation, Details

Nine pages with pen and pencil initial sketches, including variations of the arched doorway shapes, as well as construction details with dimensions, focusing on the transition between the wall surface and the arched opening.

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

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. ...

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Drawings

Haworth New Office Furniture System / Sweet Potatoes Offices and Workshops: Thick Wall Panel with Doorway - 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 the arched doorway, used for delineating the main entrance points in the offices and workshops; includes axonometric, elevation and sections with basic dimensions.

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