The Julian Street Inn – Shelter for the Homeless: Exterior wall cladding with hand-painted and hand-glazed tilework; mock-ups for the tiles
8 8) Third set of two mock-ups with the pattern finally used – 2nd variation of color tone

4.500 hand-glazed grey tiles with hand-drawn geometric pattern, on reddish Mexican body tiles, for cladding the second floor exterior walls of the Julian Street Inn.

A building can only amount to something as a living thing when the various physical elements which appear in it are profound centers. The dominant feature of the process that is working correctly is that new centers are formed, and ...

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. ...

Image of a full scale cardboard mock-up built early during the design and construction process, for testing shape and proportions of the recessed bay, the massive columns and their capitals, the embedded seat and the window.

Photograph of an early working model of a section of the building wall for testing the relationhip between the recessed bays on the ground floor with the cladding of the second floor wall with tilework.

Eighteen photographs of a sequence of sketches by Christopher Alexander together with colored mock-ups of the design either on tiles or cardboard, depicting the unfolding of the tile pattern from a simple flower design, to a geometric pattern with rhombs, ...