Photograph

Back-of-the-Moon Community: Gioja House window detail – Photographs of mock-up

01/01/1994

Mock-up

Image of the mock-up for the dining room bay window, overlooking the lake, built in its actual opening, for testing the bay window subdivisions and moldings.

Photographer:

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

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

Color

Content of

Construction Innovation

Back-of-the-Moon Community: Gioja house window detail 1995

Building Detail, Window Shaping

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Saul Pichardo, Randall Schmidt

Gioja house dining room bay window subdivision and detailing.

References

Scientific Research

Strong Centers in all Levels of Scale

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Structure Preserving Transformations

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 ...

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