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West Dean College Gardens Visitor’s Center: Photographs of building interior

01/01/1996
Interior View

Six images with the arched openings in the massive cross walls.

Photograph:

  • 1) The front thick cross-wall of the dining room with arched openings
  • 2) Nested-arches in the dining room and its lobby
  • 3) The dining room lobby through the arched opening in the massive wall
  • 4) Entrance to the dining room lobby
  • 5) Sequence of arches seen from the shop opening, through the lobby into the dining room; something approaching true living structure
  • 6) Thick cross-wall with arched opening and its connection to a sloping ceiling
Content of
  • West Dean College Gardens Visitor's Center 1994 to 1996
    Near Chichester, West Sussex, U.K.
    Civic, Realized , Construction completed in Nov. 1995
    The West Dean Center is a simple one-story masonry building with a large red-tiled roof and intricate brickwork for its thick walls. The building is surrounded by gardens, and its south facing wall has large arched windows overlooking the garden ...
References
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  • Innovative Construction Systems, Techniques and Materials
    One of the main topics of research, included in every building project, was to identify, early on in the design process, the material and techniques of construction. This would re-establish building as an art, and allow rapid shaping and adaptation, ...
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