Photograph

Megaron Mousikis Athinon – Opera House: Marble floor – Photographs of drawings

01/01/2001

Drawing

Photograph of colored sketch of a free form floor pattern design with wavy lines and fish cut-outs.

Photographer:

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

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

Color

Content of

Construction Innovation

Megaron Mousikis Athinon - Opera House: Multi-colored marble floors, consisting of various sizes and different color marble pieces in geometric and ornamental patterns 2001

Work of Art for Project, Prefabricated Marble Floor

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Randall Schmidt, Demetrius Golzalez, Larry Berk, Bankoku Sasagawa

Prefabrication of marble floors for the concourse areas of about 8.000 m2, in sections of about two feet by four feet, assembled on a fiberglass matt, with the marble pieces being glued with epoxy to the mat. Individual pieces were ...

References

Projects

Megaron Mousikis Athinon - Opera House 2001

Athens, Greece

Civic, Designed , Not built

Client:

OMMA (Organismos Megarou Mousikis Athinon)

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Randall Schmidt, Demetrius Gonzales, Bankoku Sasagawa

Project stages:

Concept Design

In 2002 Megaron Mousikis Athinon was the largest Concert Hall in Athens and was in the process of being extended further by a vast extension, including underground opera house, conference center, library and so on. Christopher Alexander was approached by ...

Models & Mock-ups

Megaron Mousikis Athinon - Opera House: Multi-colored marble floors; paper mock-up of a floor pattern 01/01/2001

Construction Innovation, Mock-up

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA

Medium:

Array

Size:

36"x 96 1/2"

Scale:

1'=1'

Four sheets of a full-scale free-form floor pattern with blue and white wavy lines and three large, fish-shaped cut-out patterns, overlaid on them. .