Photograph

The Julian Street Inn – Shelter for Homeless: Precast columns and capitals with ornamental details

26/10/2016

Focus on Details

Photograph of the column capital with focus on its detailing, more than 25 years after its completion.

Photographer:

Dan Klynn, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

Color

Content of

Construction Innovation

Julian Street Inn - Shelter for the Homeless: Column capitals with ornamental details 1987

Work of Art for Project, Ornament

Created by:

Christopher Alexander

Hand-made cast-concrete column capitals with ornamental details, his mouth being the water flow hole.

References

Projects

Julian Street Inn - Shelter for the Homeless 1986 to 1990

Julian St. & Montgomery St., San Jose, CA, U.S.A.

Civic, Realized , Construction completed in 1989; final interior painting in 1990

Client:

Housing for Independent People - Al DiLudovico, Executive Director

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Gary Black, Artemis Anninou, Carl Lindberg, James Maguire, Eleni Coromvli, Kleoniki Tsotropoulou

Contractor:

Oliver and Company, with Center for Environmetal Structure as major specialty subcontractor

Project cost:

$1,700,000

Project stages:

Pattern language for project by clients and C.E.S. Layout by clients and C.E.S. Use of full scale mock-ups Design Development and Building Permit drawings Direct Construction management and on-site design decisions Budget and subcontractors under C.E

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. ...