The Julian Street Inn – Shelter for the Homeless: Exterior wall cladding with hand-painted and hand-glazed tilework – Photographs of model

A long wall along the main street; the first floor wall is organized as an alternating repetition of cast concrete columns and plain recessed wall bays, all on a thick wall base, in contrast with the second floor wall, all ...

4.500 hand-glazed grey tiles with hand-drawn geometric pattern, on reddish Mexican body tiles, for cladding the second floor exterior walls of the Julian Street Inn.

The design process of a project and its construction process are united into one continuous and intertwined making process, unfolding in a step-by-step sequence. Design ends together with the completion of the construction process. "Making" is a conception of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

Three sets of cardboard mockups, in actual size, depicting the sequence of the pattern and color studies for the tiles. The first set includes one mock-up with four early pencil sketches of the tile pattern drawn at full scale in ...

Study of the proportional distribution of color and materials between the first and the second floor parts of the building’s exterior elevations; it includes a hardline drawing of a wall segment elevation colored locally, and a color sketch of a ...

Study of the proportional distribution of color and materials between the first and the second floors of the building exterior elevations; it includes a colored pencil drawing of a wall segment elevation.