Bridge for Puerto Rico

A highly innovative structure, designed to be made out of prestressed light-weight pierced concrete shells, for a 500 meter span; extensive finite-element simulations were run to ensure its high structural strength.

Views of two presentation paper models, framed together; the models present two variations of precast, pierced-concrete, long span shell designs of the Puerto Rico bridge .

Two perspective sketches in pencil by Christopher Alexander of the bridge, one is an overview and the other a close up of the pierced concrete long span shell design.

Diagramatic computer studies of the bridge spans.

In any process of design or making, the next step which is most structure-enhancing, is that step which most intensifies the feeling of the emerging whole. What ultimately matters in this process is that the work produced generates feeling in ...

“The Luminous Ground” is the fourth and last volume of “The Nature of Order” series. In this volume, Alexander attempts to show the cosmological underpinning of the nature of order. The book has two goals. First, to show that the ...

Framed photograph of a pastel painting by Christopher Alexander, depicting a view of the bridge named “The Driving Experience: The View from the Road”.