The Julian Street Inn – Shelter for the Homeless: Exterior wall cladding with hand-painted and hand-glazed tilework – Early study sketches

01/01/1987

Sketches, Elevation

Study of the proportional distribution of color and materials between the first and the second floor parts of the building’s exterior elevations; it includes a hardline drawing of a wall segment elevation colored locally, and a color sketch of a tile pattern.

Designers:

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

Medium:

Original on Paper

Size:

8 1/2"x11"

Scale:

1/8"=1'

Content of

Construction Innovation

Julian Street Inn - Shelter for the Homeless: Exterior wall cladding with hand-painted and hand-glazed tilework 1988

Work of Art for Project, Hand-glazed Tilework

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Kleoniki Tsotropoulou

4.500 hand-glazed grey tiles with hand-drawn geometric pattern, on reddish Mexican body tiles, for cladding the second floor exterior walls of the Julian Street Inn.

Contents

Drawings

References

Photographs

The Julian Street Inn - Shelter for the Homeless: Exterior wall cladding with hand-painted and hand-glazed tilework - Photographs of model 01/01/1987

Construction Innovation, Model

Photographer:

Ismet Khambatta/C.E.S., Martinez, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

Color

Photograph of an early working model of a section of the building wall for testing the relationhip between the recessed bays on the ground floor with the cladding of the second floor wall with tilework.