Civic Center & Town Hall for Mountain View: Photographs of project model

Invited design competition entry. One of five invited entries and winner of first round selection process. The project with 100,000 square feet of total area of construction included: a) the new City Hall building 65,000 sq.ft.; b) Community Theater with ...

Christopher Alexander recognized the importance of the geometry of centers and for years he was looking for the common structural features among buildings, paintings, streets, carpets, doors, windows, etc. which have "life" and "wholeness". He identified fifteen structural features which ...

Large building are not easy to design and keep the feeling of intimay in them. The way a large building can be given this quality is by succeeding in the creation of living centers throughout its fabric. The profusion and ...

The main building section through the whole building complex, depicting the City Hall lobby and the theater. Its geometry and articulation are fresh and carry the features of the fifteen properties.

Two views of the project model, prepared for the invited competition, both from a bird’s eye view. The model portrays clearly the presence of centers in the volumetric arrangement both of buildings and outdoor space, throughout a range of scales.

The first rough project model, in a small scale made out of small wooden blocks, exploring the volumetric configuration of the project.