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

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 ...

Two drawing sheets of the four elevations of the building with table of finishes.

Five drawings illustrating the development of the southern facade designs. They focus on the dimensions of the roof cornice, the bay-window and building roof shape and the thickness of the poured concrete elements between the windows.

Three drawings illustrating two versions of the poured concrete elements around the windows, with the third drawing being an original pencil illustration of the first version .

Four images depict the set of preliminary architectural drawings of the site plan, floor plan and elevations.