Photograph

Back-of-the-Moon Community: Heisey House roof eave detail – Photographs

01/01/1994

Focus on Detail, Work in Progress

Image of the house framing focusing on the roof overhang and the detailing of the shaped rafter tails, forming the roof edge and eave.

Photographer:

Randall Schmidt/C.E.S., Lake Travis, Austin, TX, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

Color

Content of

Construction Innovation

Back-of-the-Moon Community: Heisey house roof eave detail 1994

Building Detail, Roof & Eave

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Saul Pichardo, Randall Schmidt

Light rafter and sub-rafter structure for the roof eave. Shaped rafter tails form the roof edge and eave; the eave is more complex and makes a better center by the shape of the tails.

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: Heisey House 1992 to 1996

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

Residential, Realized , Construction completed in 1995

Client:

Mr. & Mrs. James and Sylvia Heisey

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 Jim and Sylvia Heisey, with an area of 2.000 square feet.

Photographs

Back-of-the-Moon Community: Heisey House roof eave detail - Photographs 18/03/2018

Construction Innovation, Exterior View, Focus on Details

Photographer:

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

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

Color

Three images of the roof overhang and the detailing of the shaped rafter tails, forming the roof edge and eave.