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

01/01/1994

Architectural Design, Preliminary Design, Details

Early outline elevation of the main entrance front wall testing spacing and proportions of a horizontally stripped wall finish.

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West Dean College Gardens Visitor's Center 1994 to 1996

Near Chichester, West Sussex, U.K.

Civic, Realized , Construction completed in Nov. 1995

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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West Dean College Gardens Visitor's Center: Preliminary Design Drawings - Entrance elevations 25/02/1994

Architectural Design, Project, Preliminary Design, Elevation

Early study of the main entrance illustrating two phases of the front and side elevations of the entrance. One Is a “Structure elevation” and includes the dimensions and arc radius, and the second is “Option 1” and it depicts a ...
West Dean College Gardens Visitor's Center: Sketches 3 3) Wall elevation sketching the final distribution of materials 01/01/1995

Architectural Design, Project, Sketches, Elevation

Three sketches of the entrance porch front wall finalizing dimensions, details and materials, before construction took place.
West Dean College Gardens Visitor's Center: Preliminary Design Drawings - Entrance elevations 05/01/1995

Architectural Design, Project, Preliminary Design, Elevation

Five comparative versions of elevations focused on the total height of the entrance, the arch height, the base height, and the cornice thickness.
West Dean College Gardens Visitor's Center: Preliminary Design Drawings - Entrance elevations 01/01/1995

Architectural Design, Project, Preliminary Design, Elevation

Three elevation studies of the entrance with initial ideas of the wall surface subdivisions; possibly of the poured concrete parts.
West Dean College Gardens Visitor's Center: Preliminary Design Drawings - Entrance elevations 01/01/1995

Architectural Design, Project, Preliminary Design, Elevation

Five pages with designs of various entrance ideas focused on material layouts. The first page indicates Christopher Alexander’s January ’95 idea, with the rest being referred to as “some other ideas”.

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