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

01/01/1988

Exterior View

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 the column shalf and the beam above.

Photographer:

Artemis Anninou, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital, Slide

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Construction Innovation

Julian Street Inn - Shelter for the Homeless: Exterior wall made of repetitive recessed bays framed by massive columns 1987

Building Detail, Wall Treatment

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Gary Black, Carl Lindberg, James Maguire

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 ...

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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. ...

Models & Mock-ups

The Julian Street Inn - Shelter for the Homeless: Exterior wall cladding with hand-painted and hand-glazed tilework; mock-ups for the tiles 01/01/1988

Construction Innovation, Mock-up

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Eleni Coromvli, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA

Medium:

Array

Size:

10 1/8"x10 1/8", 8 1/2"x11"

Scale:

1'=1'

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 ...

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The Julian Street Inn - Shelter for the Homeless: Exterior wall made of repetitive recessed bays framed by massive columns - Photographs of mock-up 01/01/1987

Construction Innovation, Construction Experiment & Mock-up

Photographer:

Ismet Khambatta/C.E.S., Martinez, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

Color

Image of a full scale cardboard mock-up built early during the design and construction process, for testing shape and proportions of the recessed bay, the massive columns and their capitals, the embedded seat and the window.