Photograph

Megaron Mousikis Athinon – Opera House: Music Library marble floor – Photographs of mock-up

01/01/2001

Mock-up

Two photographs of the paper mock-ups made to size and thested on the ground, before finalizing the marble tile mock-up, depicting two stages of its development.

Photographer:

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

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

B&W

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 ...

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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; mock-up of marble tile 01/01/2001

Construction Innovation, Mock-up

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Randall Schmidt, Demetrius Golzalez, Larry Berk, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA

Medium:

Array

Size:

18"x18"

Scale:

1'=1'

A small piece of a floor in black, white and green marble; a test tile, intended for the Music Library floor, forming the geometric floor pattern, a mosaic of one hundred pieces, cut using a precision water jet cutter.