C.E.S. Office – Martinez House: Photographs of building details

01/01/1979

Focus on Details

Photograph of a simple and massive low wall marking the perimeter of the building site, accompanied by three outline section sketches made by Christopher Alexander.

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

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

Residential, Realized , Construction completed in 1984

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 ...

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Scientific Research 1 Items

Strong Centers in all Levels of Scale

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 ...