The Julian Street Inn – Shelter for Homeless: Open lacework concrete trusses shot in place with gunite – Sketches
2 2) Finite element model

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 ...

Truss #3 element analysis includes two parts: Part 1 contains 10 pages of initial, hand-calculated load distribution on the joints and frame-members performed on 23-Apr-1987; and part 2 contains 7 pages of computer runs studying load distribution on the joints ...

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 ...