Model & Mock-up

The Julian Street Inn – Shelter for the Homeless: Courtyard fountain with hand-painted and hand-glazed tilework; mock-ups for the tiles

01/04/1989

Mock-up

Full-scale paper mock-up of the final tile pattern used for cladding the base of the courtyard fountain, painted with gouache.

Created by:

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

Medium:

Array

Size:

29"x17"

Scale:

1'=1'

Content of

Construction Innovation

Julian Street Inn - Shelter for the Homeless: Courtyard fountain with hand-painted and hand-glazed tilework 1988

Work of Art for Project, Hand-glazed Tilework

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Kleoniki Tsotropoulou, Robert M. Walsh

Tilework with diagonal squared pattern with four-petal flower in interchanging green and salmon, cladding the base wall of the fountain.

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. ...

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