Photograph

C.E.S. Office – Martinez House: Blue and white color for exterior walls – Photographs of drawings

01/01/1984

Sketches

Two photographs of the two watercolor sketches by Christopher Alexander, showing two alternatives of the blue and white color on the front end wall of the building, and another one containing both .

Photographer:

Harissos Tsiringas/C.E.S., Martinez, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital, Print

Characteristics:

8"x10", Color

Content of

Construction Innovation

C.E.S. Office - Martinez House: Blue and white color for exterior walls 1984

Work of Art for Project, Hand-painted Exerior

Created by:

Christopher Alexander

Christopher Alexander started to work on the color of the building from the early stages of its construction, when the concrete formwork was completed. He started mixing and testing different blues on the Martinez site to get the right wall ...

Contents

Photographs

References

Scientific Research

Color and Inner Light: The Eleven Color Properties

Areas of focus:

Structure of Space

Guiding idea:

Centers and Fields of Centers

Christopher Alexander postulated that centers and the field of centers they create are the building blocks from which wholeness is made. However, he further argued that geometry alone is not sufficient, and that color is the way wholeness comes to ...

Projects

C.E.S. Office - Martinez House 1977 to 1984

4207 Arthur Road, 94553, Martinez, CA, U.S.A.

Residential, Realized , Construction completed in 1984

Client:

Center for Environmetal Structure - C.E.S. Directors

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Jonathan Fefferman, Harissos Tsiringas, Gary Black, David Dacus, Olasheni Agbabiaka

Contractor:

Center for Environmetal Structure

Project cost:

$120,000

Project stages:

Layout on the site by C.E.S. Design Development and Building Permit drawings done after layout Direct construction management and on-site design decisions Users involved in the construction Innovative construction methods

The second building completed on the Martinez site, was a 2,000 square feet house. A gunite all-concrete building as well, it was the first sizable and fully functional project in which C.E.S. used gunite, while applying all permit and specification ...

Drawings

C.E.S. Office - Martinez House: Blue and White Color for Exterior Walls - Sketches 01/01/1984

Construction Innovation, Sketches

Designers:

Christopher Alexander, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Original on Paper

Size:

8 1/2"x11"

Two watercolor drawings, labeled as “Martinez House End Wall”, are a record of the color used for the exterior walls of the building. Drawings are numbered as 23.681 and 23.682; attached is a note “N/O Original files, Book 3, Chapter ...