The Julian Street Inn – Shelter for Homeless: Lion’s Head and hand-painted and hand-glazed tilework for cladding the courtyard fountain – Photographs

Cast-concrete lion's head on the back wall of the tiled fountain located in the courtyard of the Julian Street Inn.

Tilework with diagonal squared pattern with four-petal flower in interchanging green and salmon, cladding the base wall of the fountain.

Christopher Alexander postulated that centers and the field of centers they create are the building blocks from which wholeness is made. However, he further argued that geometry alone is not sufficient, and that color is the way wholeness comes to ...

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 ...

Christopher Alexander formulated this principle as follows: In any living process, or any process of design or making, the way forward, the next step which is most structure-enhancing, is that step which most intensifies the feeling of the emerging whole. "Feeling" ...

Design and construction of a shelter for homeless people, to serve 50 to 100 people, on a site of 13,000 sf. The building of 15,000 square feet includes offices, living areas with a dining hall, sleeping rooms, courtyards and gardens. ...

Full-scale paper mock-up of the final tile pattern used for cladding the base of the courtyard fountain, painted with gouache.

A full scale gypsum-cast model of a lion’s head for the courtyard fountain.

One page with two sketches, one being a schematic perspective view of the courtyard fountain with a lion’s head depicting the water spouting element and a grid of diagonally placed pattern suggesting the tile layout. The second image depicts the ...