Drawing

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

01/01/1987

Sketches, Elevation

One sketch of a truss study named “Rising Sun”.

Designers:

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

Medium:

Original on Paper

Size:

8 1/2"x11"

Content of

Construction Innovation

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

Construction System, Sprayed Concrete

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Gary Black, Carl Lindberg, Avery Miller, James Maguire

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

The Julian Street Inn - Shelter for the Homeless: Open lacework concrete trusses shot in place with gunite: Structural element analysis run for truss #4 - Rising Sun truss 08/06/1987

Construction Innovation, Design Matters, Calculations

Authors:

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

15 pages of computer-run structural analysis of a concrete truss version containing beam elements displacements and rotation results.

Photographs

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

Photographer:

Christopher Alexander/C.E.S., Martinez, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

B&W

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 ...