Drawing

The Julian Street Inn – Shelter for Homeless: Open lacework concrete trusses shot in place with gunite – Sketches

01/01/1987

Sketches, Elevation

Five outline sketches depicting the final floral “lily” truss design.

Drawing:

Content of

Construction Innovation 1 Items

Julian Street Inn - Shelter for the Homeless: Lacework concrete trusses with curved members shot in the air 1988

Construction System, Sprayed Concrete

The dining hall of Julian street inn is the higher building volume of the complex; the hall, a sigle room, 30 feet wide and 50 feet long, was intended to seat about 100 people. When the shape of the volume ...

References

Records 1 Items

The Julian Street Inn - Shelter for the Homeless: Open lacework concrete trusses shot in place with gunite - Structural element analysis run for truss #5 - Final Lily truss 03/08/1987

Construction Innovation, Design Matters, Calculations

Truss #5 draft structural analysis containing 36 pages of complete computer-run data of the final concrete lace truss dated 3-Aug-1987.

Photographs 1 Items

The Julian Street Inn - Shelter for Homeless: Lacework concrete trusses with curved members shot in the air - Photographs of sketches depicting design process 01/01/1987

Construction Innovation, Sketches, Design Process

Digitized

Eighteen photographs of a sequence of sketches by Christopher Alexander on the shaping of the concrete truss in relation to its structural analysis; it starts with an early idea, then follow nine photographs of five alternatives, and the final eight ...