Photograph

Back-of-the-Moon Community: Column capital shape and size used in the porch of the three houses – Photographs

01/11/1995

Exterior View

Two images of the Gioja house porch with the colums and their capitals as built for this house.

Photographer:

Christopher Alexander/C.E.S., Lake Travis, Austin, TX, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

B&W

Content of

Construction Innovation

Back-of-the-Moon Community: Column capital shape and size, built in the porch of the three houses 1994

Building Detail, Column Shaping

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Saul Pichardo, Randall Schmidt

Timber thick columns and shaped capitals were developed after a series of cardboard mock-ups until size, proportions and shape got right.

Contents

Photographs

References

Scientific Research

Design and Construction is one Integrated Making Process

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Construction Process

The design process of a project and its construction process are united into one continuous and intertwined making process, unfolding in a step-by-step sequence. Design ends together with the completion of the construction process. "Making" is a conception of the ...

Projects

Neighborhood of Five Houses: Gioja House 1992 to 1996

Lake Travis, Austin, TX, U.S.A.

Residential, Realized , Construction completed in 1995

Client:

Mr. & Mrs. Geoffrey and Linda Gioja

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Saul Pichardo, Randall Schmidt

Contractor:

Center for Environmetal Structure with Carl Lindberg

Project stages:

Layout on the site by clients and C.E.S. Use of full scale mock-ups Design Development and Building Permit drawings done after layout Direct construction management and on-site design decisions Budget and subcontractors under C.E.S. control

Design and construction of a family house for Geoffrey and Linda Gioja, with an area of 2.100 square feet.

Photographs

Back-of-the-Moon Community: Column capital shape and size used in the porch of the three houses - Photographs of mock-up 01/01/1994

Construction Innovation, Mock-up

Photographer:

Christopher Alexander/C.E.S., Lake Travis, Austin, TX, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

Color

Images of three cardboard mockups, testing the size and shape of the timber column capitals, to be used in the porches of the houses; the first one depicts a rather fat capital, the second one a shallow one, while the ...