Photograph

Fresno Farmers’ Market: Ornamental Concrete Tiles – Photographs

01/08/1984

Construction Process

Working on the concrete floor; the blue tiles were prefabricated and were dropped into the slab, the same afternoon the slab was cast.

Photographer:

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

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

Color

Content of

Construction Innovation

Fresno Farmers' Market: Ornamental concrete tiles 1984

Work of Art for Project, Concrete Tilework

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Carl Lindberg, Jonathan Fefferman, Artemis Anninou

6.000-square-foot ornamental concrete slab with special hand made fish-tail tiles. Each tile is about 15 inches long and 6 inches wide, in thin dense concrete about 1/2 inch thick. made by precasting 1/2" thick light blue fishtail tiles, cast on ...

References

Scientific Research

Ornament and Function as Products of Unfolding

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Structure Preserving Transformations

Ornament arises as part of the design process, when a person is making and seeks to embellish this "something" while making it. It arises as a result of the latent centers in the uncompleted thing requiring still more centers, requiring ...

Projects

Farmers' Market 1982 to 1985

North Blackstone Avenue and West Shaw Avenue, Fresno, CA, U.S.A.

Commercial, Realized , Construction completed in 1985

Client:

Mr. Richard Erganian

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Carl Lindberg, Jonathan Fefferman, Artemis Anninou

Contractor:

Center for Environmetal Structure

Project cost:

$80,000

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 Budget and subcontractors under C.E.S. control Innovative construction methods

A trellised structure to form the main spine for the weekly Farmer's open air market in Fresno, with 6,000 square foot floor area. Redwood arched trusses, on concrete block piers, 120 feet long, and 40 feet wide. Floor of grey ...