The Julian Street Inn – Shelter for the Homeless: Exterior wall made of repetitive recessed bays framed by massive columns – Photographs of mock-up

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 ...

Christopher Alexander recognized the importance of the geometry of centers and for years he was looking for the common structural features among buildings, paintings, streets, carpets, doors, windows, etc. which have "life" and "wholeness". He identified fifteen structural features which ...

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 ...

One image of four recessed bays with the massive columns and their capitals, forming a place to sit and rest for those walking on the sidewalk, and another one focusing on the detailing of the capital and its connection to ...