Project

House for Roger and Karuna Hodgson

1990 to 1991

Nevada City, CA, U.S.A.

Residential, Designed , Not built

2,000 square feet family house on two floors, designed with the participation of the clients. Terraces, out buildings next to the house, and two barns were planned to be included. .

Client:

Mr. & Mrs. Roger and Karuna Hodgson

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Gary Black, James Maguire

Project cost:

Expected construction cost: $350,000

Project stages:

Preliminary Design

Contents

Construction Innovations

House for Roger and Karuna Hodgson: New kind of wall construction 1991

Construction System, Structural Wall

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Gary Black, James Maguire

Mockups for innovative block techniques used the construction of structural walls made of concrete blocks laid out in a way allowing a fine line of marble to be inlaid in a chase.

Correspondence

House for Roger and Karuna Hodgeson: Client's response after a lengthy talk with Christopher Alexander on several design issues for their home. Specifically, the client is expressing agreement on some issues and also a number of a few more personal desires and proposals to address in a new discussion with Alexander 04/10/1990

Design Matters, Informative

Sender:

Karuna Hodgeson, Roger Hodgeson, Nevada City, CA, U.S.A.

Recipient:

Christopher Alexander, Center for Environmental Structure , Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Fax

Models & Mock-ups

Reports

House for Roger and Karuna Hodgson: Design Agreement 14/03/1990

Contractual, Design Services Agreement

Authors:

Mr. & Mrs. Roger and Karuna Hodgson, Nevada City, CA, U.S.A.
Christopher Alexander, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

4-page signed Design Agreement between the Center for Environmental Structure and Roger and Karuna Hodgson for the design of a two story house. The total construction of the house is to be of approximately 2000 .

References

Photographs

House for Roger and Karuna Hodgson: New kind of wall construction - Photographs of Mock-up 01/01/1991

Construction Innovation, Construction Experiment & Mock-up

Photographer:

Christopher Alexander/C.E.S., Martinez, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

Color, B&W

Working on a full scale mock-up for a wall section built with concrete blocks, experimenting with the making of chases for setting in fine lines of white marble .