Drawing

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

01/01/1987

Sketches, Elevation

Designers:

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

Medium:

Original on Paper

Size:

8 1/2"x11"

Content of

Drawing

The Julian Street Inn - Shelter for Homeless: Open lacework concrete trusses shot in place with gunite - Outline sketches 01/01/1987

Sketches, Elevation

Designers:

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

Medium:

Original on Paper

Size:

8 1/2"x11"

Two sketches describing the earlier idea of a scissors truss forming a three-foiled cusped truss. One sketch depicts a finite element model of the truss and the other, a thick-element version of it.