Photograph

C.E.S. Office – Martinez House: Detail of lounge table with two benches and terrazzo floor – Photographs

01/01/1985

Interior View

Two photos of the lounge table with one of the benches, resting on the terrazzo floor.

Photographer:

Kevin Gilson, Martinez, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital, Print, Slide

Characteristics:

8"x10", Color

Content of

Work of Art

Lounge table with two benches; table colored in red and green and benches in orange and yellow 1985

Personal Work of Art, Woodworking

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Kleoniki Tsotropoulou

A long rectangular table with two benches, made out of wood, for the C.E.S. office in Martinez. All colored in gouache on top of a layer of gesso over the wood, and then coated with varnish.

Construction Innovation

C.E.S. Office - Martinez House: Terrazzo floor with squares, diamonds and crosses 1984

Work of Art for Project, Terrazzo Work

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Eleni Coromvli

Red, yellow and blue polished terrazzo floor with squares, diamonds and crosses made on a 400 sq. ft of a living room; with styrofoam lost form technique.

Contents

Photographs

References

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 ...