Model & Mock-up

The Julian Street Inn – Shelter for Homeless: Courtyard fountain with lion’s head; model for the lion

01/01/1989

Model

A full scale gypsum-cast model of a lion’s head for the courtyard fountain.

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Robert Walsh, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA

Medium:

Array

Scale:

1'=1'

Content of

Construction Innovation

Julian Street Inn - Shelter for the Homeless: Courtyard fountain with lion's head 1988

Work of Art for Project, Ornament

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Robert M. Walsh

Cast-concrete lion's head on the back wall of the tiled fountain located in the courtyard of the Julian Street Inn.

References

Scientific Research

Ornament and Function as Products of Unfolding

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Structure Preserving Transformations

Ornament arises as part of the design process, when a person is making and seeks to embellish this "something" while making it. It arises as a result of the latent centers in the uncompleted thing requiring still more centers, requiring ...

Projects

Julian Street Inn - Shelter for the Homeless 1986 to 1990

Julian St. & Montgomery St., San Jose, CA, U.S.A.

Civic, Realized , Construction completed in 1989; final interior painting in 1990

Client:

Housing for Independent People - Al DiLudovico, Executive Director

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Gary Black, Artemis Anninou, Carl Lindberg, James Maguire, Eleni Coromvli, Kleoniki Tsotropoulou

Contractor:

Oliver and Company, with Center for Environmetal Structure as major specialty subcontractor

Project cost:

$1,700,000

Project stages:

Pattern language for project by clients and C.E.S. Layout by clients and C.E.S. Use of full scale mock-ups Design Development and Building Permit drawings Direct Construction management and on-site design decisions Budget and subcontractors under C.E

Design and construction of a shelter for homeless people, to serve 50 to 100 people, on a site of 13,000 sf. The building of 15,000 square feet includes offices, living areas with a dining hall, sleeping rooms, courtyards and gardens. ...

Drawings

The Julian Street Inn - Shelter for the Homeless: Courtyard fountain with hand-painted and hand-glazed tilework and Courtyard Fountain with Lion's Head - Sketches 01/01/1988

Construction Innovation, Sketches, Perspective, Elevation

Designers:

Christopher Alexander, Robert Walsh, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Photocopy

Size:

8 1/2"x11"

One page with two sketches, one being a schematic perspective view of the courtyard fountain with a lion’s head depicting the water spouting element and a grid of diagonally placed pattern suggesting the tile layout. The second image depicts the ...

Photographs