Photograph

Linz Café: Wooden building, post and beam construction – Photographs

01/01/1980

Interior View

View of the post and beam structural system used, clearly visible in the interior; based on a perfect grid, with a spacing that is fitted organically to the nature of the spaces in the building.
The photo was exhibited during the 10th Annual Louis Kahn Memorial Lecture in 1992, where Christopher Alexander was invited to give a lecture.

Photographer:

Ferd Reif, Linz, Austria

Source:

Print

Characteristics:

19 3/4"x23 3/4", Color

Content of

Construction Innovation

Linz Café: "Aperiodic" grid of the timber post and beam structural frame 1980

Construction System, Timber Framework

Created by:

Christopher Alexander

Post and beam structural system which fits the structure of the spaces initially conceived, and is based on a structural grid with differentiated spacing of the grid lines in both directions, long and short, keeping the variations regular. The use ...

References

Scientific Research

Projects

Linz Café 1980

Linz , Austria

Commercial, Realized , Construction completed in Jul-1980

Client:

Forum Design; Österreichisches Institut für Visuelle Gestaltung - Angela Hareiter

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander

Contractor:

Construction management by the Center for Environmental Structure with local subcontractors

Project cost:

$35.000

Project stages:

Layout on the site by C.E.S. Use of full scale mock-ups Design Development drawings done after layout Direct construction management and on-site design decisions

Built as part of the international exposition "Forum Design" and designed to be "portable". Wooden building overlooking the Danube, with the first floor of the building raised to clear the ten-foot-high river embarkment. Yellow and red exterior, three stories, 2,300 ...

Public Events

10th Annual Louis Kahn Memorial Lecture 28/04/1992

Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, PN, U.S.A.

Invited Lecture, Academic Event

Organized by:

Louis Kahn Memorial Committee

Since 1983, the annual Louis I. Kahn Memorial Award + Talk has been Philadelphia’s signature event honoring an individual who has made significant contributions to the field of architecture. The event celebrates these achievements in memory of the storied career of Philadelphia ...

Photographs

Linz Café: Wooden building, post and beam construction - Photographs of drawings 01/01/1980

Construction Innovation, Sketches

Photographer:

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

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

B&W

Two sketches of the building structural grid for each floor and two more focusing on the relashionship of the structural grid to the spaces of the café. The structural system was based on a perfect grid, with a spacing that ...