The Sala House: Hand-painted children’s bedroom alcoves; paper mock-ups

01/01/1983

Mock-up

Eight paper mock-ups for testing patterns, distribution of the two colors, lightness and darkness, color contrast and overall harmony before the painting of the alcoves.

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Construction Innovation 1 Items

Sala House: Hand-painted children's bedroom alcoves 1983

Work of Art for Project, Hand-painted Interior

The painting of the children's room with two bed alcoves, involved both Christopher Alexander and Andre Sala; it started with discussions about color between the two and continued with testing bits of cardboard painted and pinned up in the walls. ...

References

Scientific Research 1 Items

Color and Inner Light: The Eleven Color Properties

Christopher Alexander postulated that centers and the field of centers they create are the building blocks from which wholeness is made. However, he further argued that geometry alone is not sufficient, and that color is the way wholeness comes to ...

Projects 1 Items

Sala House 1981 to 1983

700 Hillside, 94706, Albany, CA, U.S.A.

Residential, Realized , Construction completed in Jun-1983

Three-story tower, 20 feet by 20 feet in plan on each floor, on a wooded, sloping site. The interior structure of the house is wood post and beam with pine panelling and hand-painted surfaces, and the exterior is a red ...

Photographs 2 Items