Drawing

West Dean College Gardens Visitor’s Center: Sketches

01/01/1994

Architectural Design, Sketches, Floor Plan

Three pages with sketches of plans.

Drawing:

Content of

Project 1 Items

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 ...

References

Drawings 2 Items

Photographs 1 Items

West Dean College Gardens Visitor's Center - Arches in the transverse load bearing walls: Photographs of drawings 01/01/1994

Construction Innovation, Sketches

Digitized

Two sketches of the building depicting its transformation from a plain rectangle with long walls pierced with windows, into a structured space by introducing four massive cross-walls, integrated with the functional arrangement of the building. As the design unfolded, ...