West Dean College Gardens Visitor’s Center: Photographs of garden

01/01/1996

Garden View

View of the long, curved bench built in the garden, forming an egg-shaped space of repose under the sun before entering the building, plus a sketch diagram of the seat location by Christopher Alexander.

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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 ...

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The Unfolding of Public Space and Gardens as Positive Space

Outdoor space is positive when it is shaped just as a room is shaped. It has a contained character, it is bounded by walls, fences, natural vegetation, enclosure of some kind. It looks into other positive spaces, some larger, some ...