Photograph

Etna street Cottage: Photographs of the layout process

01/01/1974

Layout Process on Site

Two images depicting the initial step of staking out the position of the cottage on the lot.

Photographer:

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

Source:

Print, Negative

Characteristics:

8"x10", B&W

Content of

Project

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 ...

Contents

Photographs

References

Scientific Research

The Layout Process of Buildings on the Land - Visualization at Full Scale on Site

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Step by Step Process

Each act of building needs to have a positive effect on its surroundings; to complete them, preserve their structure, make them better, by creating strong centers in them and next to them. Each new building is more alive when it ...

Academic Courses

People Rebuilding Berkeley 1974

Academic,

University Program:

Master of Architecture

Course type:

Graduate Design Studio

Course number:

Arch. 280

Instructors:

Christopher Alexander, Halim Abdelhalim

Enrolled students:

Howard Davis, Pat Cashman, Bob Daughters, Bob Delaney, Efthymios Dimoulas, Bob Esparza, Dorian Gardner, Ed Hazzard, Colin McGlibery, Tsuneki Miyagushi, Harold Nelson, Jane Rath, Bob Reyes, Fumimasa Sugiyama, Larry Thompson, Larry Wight, Ann Wochiler, Reuel Young

Development of a planning process for the City of Berkeley in which individual neighborhoods had the responsibility for their own improvement through a process based on the use of patterns at a very local scale .

Course Material

Arch 209, Spring 1974 - On construction: Student paper on the Etna Street building project 01/01/1973

Academic, Student Work, Paper

Authors:

Walter V. Wendler, University of California Berkeley, College of Environmental Design, Department of Architecture, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

10-page student paper reflecting on the process of building the Etna Street Cottage following a construction pattern language. An attempt to formulate the aspects of the followed process which were successful and those that failed the objectives of the experiment.