Drawing

West Dean College Gardens Visitor’s Center: Design Development Drawings – Elevations

01/05/1994

Architectural Design, Design Development, Elevation

The four main elevations of the building are depicted in these two drawings both including tables of wall, door, widnow, roof materials and so on.

Designers:

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

Medium:

Photocopy

Size:

23"x33"

Scale:

1:50

Content of

Project

West Dean College Gardens Visitor's Center 1994 to 1996

Near Chichester, West Sussex, U.K.

Civic, Realized , Construction completed in Nov. 1995

Client:

Edward James Foundation

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, John Hewitt, students from "The Prince of Wales's Institute of Architecture", students from Portsmouth University

Contractor:

Center for Environmetal Structure, as Management Contractor and General Contractor of record, with John Hewitt as Project Manager

Project stages:

Layout on the site by clients and C.E.S. Use of full scale mock-ups Design Development and Building Permit drawings done after layout Direct construction management and on-site design decisions Budget and subcontractors under C.E.S. control Innovativ

The West Dean Center is a simple one-story masonry building with a large red-tiled roof and intricate brickwork for its thick walls. The building is surrounded by gardens, and its south facing wall has large arched windows overlooking the garden ...

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Photographs

West Dean College Gardens Visitor's Center: Photographs of the project during construction 01/01/1995

Project, Exterior View, Works in Progress

Photographer:

John Hewitt, Near Chichester, West Sussex, U.K.

Source:

Print

Characteristics:

4"x6" , Color

Three images depicting two views of the north elevation and one of the south elevation at various moments of the construction process.