Berryessa Terraced House: Multicolored blue diamond shaped tiles embedded into the foundation concrete perimeter wall – Photographs

10/02/1982

Work in Progress, Focus on Details

One B&W photograph depicting a section of the foundation perimeter walls with the tiles embedded in the concrete, and a colored one showing the living room alcove foundation perimeter beam with one tile in the middle.

Photographer:

Christopher Alexander/C.E.S., Napa County, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Print, Negative, Slide

Characteristics:

8 1/2"x11", 4"x5", Color, B&W

Content of

Construction Innovation

Berryessa Terraced House: Multicolored blue diamond shaped tiles 1981

Work of Art for Project, Hand-glazed Tilework

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Artemis Anninou, Gernot Mittersteiner

Thirty five diamond shaped porcelain tile fragments; hand drawn and painted, set into the foundation perimeter wall of the main house volume.

Contents

Photographs

References

Scientific Research

Ornament and Function as Products of Unfolding

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Structure Preserving Transformations

Ornament arises as part of the design process, when a person is making and seeks to embellish this "something" while making it. It arises as a result of the latent centers in the uncompleted thing requiring still more centers, requiring ...

Projects

House for John and Mara Lighty 1981 to 1989

2675 Harness Drive, Berryessa Estates, Pope Valley, Napa County, CA, U.S.A.

Residential, Realized , Construction completed in Aug-1989

Client:

Mr. & Mrs. John and Mara Lighty

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Artemis Anninou, Gary Black, Gernot Mittersteiner

Contractor:

Center for Environmetal Structure

Project cost:

$72,788

Project stages:

Layout on the site by clients and C.E.S. Design Development and Building Permit drawings done after layout Use of full scale mock-ups Direct construction management and on-site design decisions Users involved in the construction Innovative constructi

Terraced house built for a couple; the house consists of six building volumes, gracefully positioned on a wooded slope among white oak trees, and includes the living room - kitchen volume, the studio volume, the bedroom - library volume, a ...