West Dean College Gardens Visitor’s Center: Sketches
2 2) Partial elevation with details & material suggestions

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.

Two drawings depicting studies of the four main elevations. The East elevation also includes the general overall heights of the main building and the roof.

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 .

Two early sketches by Christopher Alexander, depicting details of walls and windows.