West Dean College Gardens Visitor’s Center – Arches in the transverse load bearing walls: Sketches of interior arches

14/01/1995

Sketches, Elevation

Three simple hand-drawn sketches with elevations of the four arched load bearing walls, providing dimensions of the arched openings in the reception walls, in the kitchen and shop walls, and in the east facing restaurant wall. An additonal fourth sketch refers to the kitchen and restaurant walls and contains punch list notes.

Designers:

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

Medium:

Original on Paper

Size:

8 1/2"x11"

Content of

Construction Innovation

West Dean College Gardens Visitor's Center: Arches in the transverse load bearing walls 1994

Construction System, Structural Wall

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, John Hewitt

The four thick cross-walls are pierced by low arches, to make the openings between the spaces. The size of the openings differ, and so the curve of the arches differ as well. The final curvature of each arch was finalized ...

Contents

Drawings

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References

Scientific Research

Wholeness as a Tangible and Objective Quality: The Mirror of the Self

Areas of focus:

Quality and Values

Guiding idea:

Wholeness as an Objective Quality

In any process of design or making, the next step which is most structure-enhancing, is that step which most intensifies the feeling of the emerging whole. What ultimately matters in this process is that the work produced generates feeling in ...

Drawings

West Dean College Gardens Visitor's Center - Arches in the transverse load bearing walls: Preliminary Design Drawings - Interior arch elevations 01/01/1995

Construction Innovation, Preliminary Design, Elevation

Designers:

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

Medium:

Photocopy

Size:

8 1/2"x11"

Three small hardline drawings with specific dimensions for the arched openings and the arch-forming parts of the walls. The drawings illustrate the kitchen, the reception-restaurant and the shop load bearing walls.