Photograph

Nyingma Buddist Monastery – Compound enclosure wall: Photograph of mock-up

01/01/1990

Mock-up

View of the mock-up of the ten-foot compound wall for enclosing the monastery, built in full scale.

Photographer:

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

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

B&W

Content of

Construction Innovation

Nyingma Buddist Monastery: Compound enclosure wall 1990

Building Detail, Wall Treatment

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Ismet Khambatta, Keiko Inoue

Ten-foot high battered shape perimeter wall, made of bricks with cross reinforcements, plastered with medallion ornaments and colored; built as a full scale mockup ...

References

Scientific Research

Strong Centers in all Levels of Scale

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Structure Preserving Transformations

A building can only amount to something as a living thing when the various physical elements which appear in it are profound centers. The dominant feature of the process that is working correctly is that new centers are formed, and ...

Projects

Nyingma Buddhist Monastery 1988 to 1989

Kathmandu, Nepal

Civic, Designed , Not built

Client:

Tibetan Nyingma Meditation Center - David A. French Construction Mgr. and Ann M. Bergfors Coordinator

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Ismet Khambatta, Keiko Inoue

Project cost:

Expected construction cost: $1,500,000

Project stages:

Preliminary Design

Tibetan Buddist Study Center, a monastic and educational facility for 300 monks, at the outskirts of Kathmandu, to be built by the monks themselves using 70% self help and 30% professional labor. Approximate area of construction 122,000 square feet, ...