Go BackWest Dean College Gardens Visitor’s Center – Arches in the transverse load bearing walls: Photographs of sketches with arches and their curves
01/09/1994Three photographs of early sketches by Christopher Alexander depicting the emergence and shaping of the wall arches. The templates for making the curve of the formworks were copied from these sketches; in the second photo, the top sketch gave the best line for the bigger arches, and the central, inner sketch gave the line for the smaller openings.
Photograph:
- 1) Sketch of cross wall with arches, on a piece of scrap wood, after it became possible to assess the scale & effect of the arches
- 2) Arch curves drawn on a concrete wall in the construction site, with different radii of curvature & spans
- 3) Hardline drawing of the floor plan with the four cross-wall, pierced with arches
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