West Dean College Gardens Visitor’s Center – Ceiling Plasterwork: Sketches

01/01/1996

Sketches, Plan, Axonometric

Two pages depicting initial sketches suggesting a ceiling design for the plaster patterns with an axonometric view and a hard line drawing of a reflected ceiling plan.

Designers:

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

Medium:

Original on Paper

Size:

8 1/2"x11", 23 3/8"x30"

Content of

Construction Innovation

West Dean College Gardens Visitor's Center: Coffered ceiling 1995

Work of Art for Project, Coffered Ceiling

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, John Hewitt

Dining room coffered ceiling with ornamentral features.

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 ...