Drawing

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

23/05/1988

Construction Drawings, Section, Elevation, Details

Three structural drawings of the concrete truss with successive editing and improvements marked by the building department reviewer and including professional seals and signatures with expiration date 30-Sep-1989.

Designers:

Christopher Alexander, Gary Black, A.J. Miller, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Blueprint

Size:

24"x36"

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 ...

Contents

Drawings

References

Scientific Research

Innovative Construction Systems, Techniques and Materials

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Construction Innovation

One of the main topics of research, included in every building project, was to identify, early on in the design process, the material and techniques of construction. This would re-establish building as an art, and allow rapid shaping and adaptation, ...

Drawings

The Julian Street Inn - Shelter for Homeless: Open lacework concrete trusses shot in place with gunite - Permit Drawings 10/07/1987

Construction Innovation, Permit Drawing, Section, Elevation

Designers:

Christopher Alexander, Gary Black, A.J. Miller, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Blueprint

Size:

24"x36 1/2"

Two drawings of the precast concrete truss, the first showing reinforcement information and placement, and the other one the truss as it stands within the volume of the dining hall, in relatioship to the other building elements of the space.

Photographs

The Julian Street Inn - Shelter for Homeless: Lacework concrete trusses with curved members shot in the air - Photographs of mock-ups depicting its design process 29/08/1988

Construction Innovation, Construction Experiment & Mock-up, Design Process

Photographer:

Christopher Alexander/C.E.S., San Jose, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Print

Characteristics:

4"x6", Color

Six images of a cardboard full scale partial mock-up, depicting one of the spanning ends of the truss and the testing on site four alternatives for supporting the truss on the columns already built. The first, simple solution was chosen ...