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Etna Street Cottage: Ornament in door frame – Photographs

01/01/1974

Exterior View, Work in Progress

Three images of the entrance door frame with ornament, depicting the frame under construction and finished.

Photographer:

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

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

Color

Content of

Construction Innovation

Etna Street Cottage: Ornament in door frame 1974

Work of Art for Project, Ornament

Created by:

Christopher Alexander

S's cut with jig-saw after being drawn on one-inch planks; then filled with plaster.

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Etna Street Cottage 1974

Etna Street, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Residential, Realized , Construction completed in 1974

Client:

Center for Environmetal Structure

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander with his students in the 1974 Spring studio class Arch. 209, including Walter V. Wendler and Donald Corner

Contractor:

Center for Environmetal Structure

Project cost:

$3.000

Project stages:

Pattern language for the project by C.E.S. Layout on the site No drawings were produced Users involved in the construction Innovative construction methods

Experimental building project, two-story 400 sq. ft. cottage, with a hollow wooden structure filled with concrete and featherweight concrete vaults. Completed in ten weeks, without a building permit at the back of the C.E.S. office on Etna Street, and was ...