Drawing

The Julian Street Inn – Shelter for Homeless: Precast columns and capitals with ornamental details – Permit Drawings

10/08/1987

Permit Drawing, Axonometric, Elevation

Two drawings with details of the precast columns and their capitals with ornaments, and of the fabrication and assembly procedure .

Designers:

Christopher Alexander, Gary Black, James Maguire, Eleni Coromvli, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Blueprint

Content of

Construction Innovation

Julian Street Inn - Shelter for the Homeless: Column capitals with ornamental details 1987

Work of Art for Project, Ornament

Created by:

Christopher Alexander

Hand-made cast-concrete column capitals with ornamental details, his mouth being the water flow hole.

Contents

Drawings

References

Scientific Research

Ornament and Function as Products of Unfolding

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Structure Preserving Transformations

Ornament arises as part of the design process, when a person is making and seeks to embellish this "something" while making it. It arises as a result of the latent centers in the uncompleted thing requiring still more centers, requiring ...

Photographs