George House – Exterior staircase ballustrade with ornament: Photograph of ornament mock-up

01/01/1998

Mock-up

Photograph of a mock-up for the ballustrade of the wall staircase wall, testing concrete segments with cut-outs, forming a sequence of ornamental voids .

Photographer:

Randall Schmidt, Pleasant Hill, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

Color

Content of

Construction Innovation

George House: Exterior staircase ballustrade with ornament 1998

Work of Art for Project, Ornament

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Randall Schmidt

Exterior staircase solid wall made out of concrete blocks with precat concrete ballustrade with ornamental cut-outs.

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

George House 1997 to 1998

Pleasant Hill, CA, U.S.A.

Residential, Realized , Construction completed in 1998

Client:

Mr. & Mrs. Brian and Xilin George

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Randall Schmidt

House and cottage with large outdoor terraces with custom concrete walls.