Black and White Terrazzo Floor: Photographs of mock-up

01/01/1981

Construction Experiment & Mock-up

Three photographs of the terrazzo floor experiment, one of the first terrazzo floor experiments, made at the entrance door of the C.E.S. office on Shasta Road.

Photographer:

Christopher Alexander/C.E.S., Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

Color

Content of

Work of Art

Black and white terrazzo floor 1981

Personal Work of Art, Terrazzo Work

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Gernot Mittersteiner

The first experiment for a marble-dust floor that Christopher Alexander had conducted.

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 ...