Megaron Mousikis Athinon – Opera House: Multi-colored marble floors; paper mock-up of a floor pattern

01/01/2001

Mock-up

Three large sheets of paper, CAD-printed mock-ups of the library floor design, all with the same geometric pattern, but with variations of black and white pattern arrangements; one having paste-up parts and one, some red and blue color tested.

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Randall Schmidt, Demetrius Golzalez, Larry Berk, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA

Medium:

Array

Size:

36"x58"

Scale:

1'=1'

Content of

Construction Innovation

Megaron Mousikis Athinon - Opera House: Multi-colored marble floors, consisting of various sizes and different color marble pieces in geometric and ornamental patterns 2001

Work of Art for Project, Prefabricated Marble Floor

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Randall Schmidt, Demetrius Golzalez, Larry Berk, Bankoku Sasagawa

Prefabrication of marble floors for the concourse areas of about 8.000 m2, in sections of about two feet by four feet, assembled on a fiberglass matt, with the marble pieces being glued with epoxy to the mat. Individual pieces were ...

Contents

Models & Mock-ups

References

Projects

Megaron Mousikis Athinon - Opera House 2001

Athens, Greece

Civic, Designed , Not built

Client:

OMMA (Organismos Megarou Mousikis Athinon)

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Randall Schmidt, Demetrius Gonzales, Bankoku Sasagawa

Project stages:

Concept Design

In 2002 Megaron Mousikis Athinon was the largest Concert Hall in Athens and was in the process of being extended further by a vast extension, including underground opera house, conference center, library and so on. Christopher Alexander was approached by ...

Photographs

Megaron Mousikis Athinon - Opera House: Music Library marble floor - Photographs of drawings 01/01/2001

Construction Innovation, Drawing

Photographer:

Christopher Alexander/C.E.S., Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

B&W

Photographs of three drawings, produced with the aid of computers and showing a series of paper mock-up before finalizing the marble tile mock-up for the Music Library floor; the same pattern is depicted in each one, while the extent of ...