Drawing

The Julian Street Inn – Shelter for the Homeless: Courtyard fountain with hand-painted and hand-glazed tilework – Sketches

01/01/1988

Sketches, Elevation

Sketch of the tile pattern used for cladding the base wall of the fountain. Diagonally arranged square tiles include four-petal flowers placed on two alternating color backgrounds .

Designers:

Christopher Alexander, Kleoniki Tsotropoulou, Robert Walsh, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Original on Paper

Size:

4"x8 1/2"

Content of

Construction Innovation

Julian Street Inn - Shelter for the Homeless: Courtyard fountain with hand-painted and hand-glazed tilework 1988

Work of Art for Project, Hand-glazed Tilework

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Kleoniki Tsotropoulou, Robert M. Walsh

Tilework with diagonal squared pattern with four-petal flower in interchanging green and salmon, cladding the base wall of the fountain.

References

Scientific Research

Models & Mock-ups

The Julian Street Inn - Shelter for the Homeless: Courtyard fountain with hand-painted and hand-glazed tilework; mock-ups for the tiles 01/04/1989

Construction Innovation, Mock-up

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Kleoniki Tsotropoulou, Robert Walsh, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA

Medium:

Array

Size:

29"x17"

Scale:

1'=1'

Full-scale paper mock-up of the final tile pattern used for cladding the base of the courtyard fountain, painted with gouache.

Photographs

The Julian Street Inn - Shelter for Homeless: Hand-glazed tilework for cladding the courtyard fountain - Photographs of mock-up 01/01/1989

Construction Innovation, Mock-up

Photographer:

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

Source:

Photocopy

Characteristics:

8 1/2"x11", Color

Image of test samples of glazed tiles painted and fired for checking on site the color glazes and pattern of the tiles to be used for cladding the fountain curved base in the main courtyard. .