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

01/01/1994

Design Process, Model

The only remaining photo of the first wood and cardboard study model. It was made brick by brick –each brick a separate piece of balsa wood, which allowed visualizing and working out a coherent structure pattern.

Content of

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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 ...

References

Scientific Research 1 Items

Design and Construction is one Integrated Making Process

The design process of a project and its construction process are united into one continuous and intertwined making process, unfolding in a step-by-step sequence. Design ends together with the completion of the construction process. "Making" is a conception of the ...