Go BackWest Dean College Gardens Visitor’s Center – Exterior wall with exposed herringbone brick pattern, alternating with exposed concrete bands and grey flint stones: Sketch studies of the south wall windows
01/01/1995Series of eight rough sketch versions of the wall material around and between windows. The first sketches show only the outline and thickness of concrete members around the windows, while the others depict the treatment of the wall segments surrounding the windows, using concrete panels with embedded bricks or grey flint stones.
Drawing:
- 1) Top of window with notes on the thickness of surrounding concrete members
- 2) Top of window with more accurate sizing of members and indication of materials
- 3) Two large windows with the walls segments in-between & at the top with 1st proposal of material configuation
- 4) Two large windows with the walls segments in-between & at the top with 2nd proposal of material configuation
- 5) Two large windows with the walls segments in-between & at the top with 3rd proposal of material configuation
- 6) Two large windows with the walls segments in-between & at the top with 4th proposal of material configuation
- 7) Two large windows with the walls segments in-between & at the top with 5th proposal of material configuation
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