Photograph

The Sullivan House: Blue and white terrazzo floor for the house terrace – Photographs of mock-up

01/01/1995

Mock-up, Construction Process

Nine photographs giving a general overview of the floor tiles making sequence, the first one being the flower mold and the last one a sample of the tile produced for the terrazzo floor. This was the process followed for the production of the tiles by a group of students, under the tutelage of a project supervisor.

Photographer:

Katalin Bende/C.E.S., Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

Color

Content of

Construction Innovation

Sullivan House: Blue and white terrazzo floor 1995

Work of Art for Project, Terrazzo Work

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Randy Schmidt, Katalin Bende

850 hand-made tiles with flower, cast in blue and white terrazzo, ground and polished for the terrace floor; mockups and experimentation for developing the flower mold and the way of making them were developed in a construction course, and the ...

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References

Scientific Research

Ornament and Function as Products of Unfolding

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Structure Preserving Transformations

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 ...

Projects

Sullivan House 1990 to 1994

Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Residential, Realized , Construction completed in 1996

Client:

Mr. & Mrs. Steve and Susie Sullivan

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Eleni Coromvli, Katalin Bende

Contractor:

Center for Environmetal Structure

Project cost:

$260,000

Project stages:

Layout on the site by clients and C.E.S. Use of full scale mock-ups Design Development and Building Permit drawings done after layout Direct construction management and on-site design decisions Budget and subcontractors under C.E.S. control

House reconstruction design and construction management. Concrete, redwood, fruitwood, plaster, terrazzo tiled floors and hand made metal detailed interiors.

Academic Courses

Building Process Area of Emphasis: Construction experience course - Introduction to Construction 1995

Academic,

University Program:

Master of Architecture

Course type:

Elementary Construction Experience

Course number:

Arch. 263A

Instructors:

Randall Schmidt

Enrolled students:

Jeff Clark, Eric Davis, and three more

The course included weekly work on site under the tutelage of a supervisor and attendance of a lecture every other week. The students procuded terrazzo tiles for an outdoor deck in the Berkeley hills; the five students completed the production ...

Models & Mock-ups

Photographs

The Sullivan House: Blue and white terrazzo floor for the house terrace - Photographs of mock-up 01/01/1995

Construction Innovation, Mock-up

Photographer:

Katalin Bende/C.E.S., Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

Color

Four photographs of the floor tiles mock-ups and experiments; the first of a test tile; the second of comparing two variations of the pattern size included in one tile; and the other two of tiles arrays, for checking the overall ...