Go BackOffices and Workshops for Sweet Potatoes Children’s Clothing Factory
1985 to 19862,300 square feet of interior office space for the management and administrative staff for "Sweet Potatoes" clothing factory to accommodate two partners and eleven employees. All interior furnishings, walls, floors, ceilings, lighting, built-in cabinets, desks, storage, chairs, tables, custom fitted to user layout process, with hand-painted finishes.
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Haworth New Office Furniture System: Counter with drawers / Sweet Potatoes Offices and Workshops: Counter with drawers
1985
20" deep counter top with four rows of drawers below in enamelled wood. Initially developed as an office furniture prototype for the Haworth New Office Furniture System, and then installed in one of the private offices of the Sweet Potatoes ...
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Haworth New Office Furniture System: Small compartments / Sweet Potatoes Offices and Workshops: Small compartments
1985
Series of compartments on upper part of the wall. Initially installed in the production room of the Sweet Potatoes Offices and Workshops, and then developed as an office furniture prototype for the Haworth New Office Furniture System.
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Haworth New Office Furniture System: Floor pattenrs / Sweet Potatoes Offices and Workshops: Floor pattenrs
1985
Floor constructed of varnished pine blocks in a variety of patterns. Two different paterns were initially built for the Sweet Potatoes floors, and then developed as an office space element for the Haworth New Office Furniture System, with ornamental qualities.
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Sweet Potatoes Offices and Workshops: Presentation Drawing - Layout plans
01/03/1985
Floor plan of the final design of the office and workshop areas, depicting thick-wall divisions and furniture arrangements.
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Sweet Potatoes Offices and Workshops: Sketches - Layout of thick wall panels
01/03/1985
Two pencil layout sketches of the ‘Sweet Potatoes’ premises, the first depicting the layout plan with the thick walls and furniture and the second focusing only on the thick walls and their break-up into the different types of the fabricated ...
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Sweet Potatoes Offices and Workshops: Presentation Drawing - Floor patterns
01/03/1985
Floor plan of the workshop and the office spaces, depicting the wood floor patterns implemented.
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Sweet Potatoes Offices and Workshops: Cost estimate
01/05/1985
Nine handwritten pages with cost estimates for individual items, including summary lists as well.
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Sweet Potatoes Offices and Workshops: Layout process illustrations
01/01/1985
Three pages illustrating the forming of a main center of a group’s work-space using the step-by-step adaptation process which leads to a progressively evolving whole.
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Sweet Potatoes Offices and Workshops: Office Design Sketches with Notes
01/01/1985
13 pages with sketches depicting different floor plans of working spaces belonging to the Sweet Potatoes clothing factory, with furniture arrangements user-selected and laid-out according to their needs. Some notes listing furniture chosen by people for their specific working areas, ...
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Offices and Workshops for Sweet Potatoes Children's Clothing Factory: Photographs of drawings
2 2) Floor plan with variety of floor patterns
01/09/1985
Two floor plans of the workshop, produced together with the two owners of the company.
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Offices and Workshops for Sweet Potatoes Children's Clothing Factory: Photographs of model
7 7) Close-up in bird's eye view of part of the model
01/07/1985
Seven views of the 1:50 model of the production areas and one private office, built out of pieces of wood representing the thick wall segments, columns and beams, all of them used in different combinations to define work spaces and ...
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Offices and Workshops for Sweet Potatoes Children's Clothing Factory: Photographs of building interior
5 5) Meeting alcove between personal offices
01/09/1986
Five photographs of various spaces in the clothing factory; the central production room, the entrance and personal offices.
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References
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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 ...
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The Uniqueness of People's Individual Worlds, Always Respected and Manifested
In the last two centuries "modular" design has produced identical apartments, arranged in typical apartment blocks. The same is true for mass-produced furniture. Uniqueness, which expresses personal needs and whiches, and which springs from the need to adapt and connect ...
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Color and Inner Light: The Eleven Color Properties
Christopher Alexander postulated that centers and the field of centers they create are the building blocks from which wholeness is made. However, he further argued that geometry alone is not sufficient, and that color is the way wholeness comes to ...
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The Nature of Order - An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe.
Book Two - The Process of Creating Life
2002
“The Process of Creating Life”, the second volume of “The Nature of Order” series presents a dynamic theory of living structure. It begins with an analysis of transformations, which occur in nature, and the distinction between structure-preserving transformations, responsible for ...
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The Nature of Order - An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe.
Book Three - A Vision of a Living World
2005
“A Vision of a Living World”, the third volume of “The Nature of Order” series, presents, for the first time, a full spectrum of Alexander’s and CES built and unbuilt works. The book describes hundreds of buildings, plans, neighborhoods, drawings, ...
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Watercolor sketches for the projects related with "The Personal Workplace - New System of Office Furniture": Photographs
01/01/1985
Photographs of the four watercolor sketches from Christopher Alexander’s notebook, conveying the form and feeling of personal workplaces.
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Sweet Potatoes Offices and Workshops: Thick Walls - Photographs
01/01/1985
Three photographs of various types of thick wall panels, fabricated in the C.E.S. workshop, moved to the project site and stacked ready for instalation.
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Sweet Potatoes Offices and Workshops: Floor Pattenrs _Photographs of mock-up
01/01/1985
Photographs of the two floor patterns as installed, and two more with mock-ups of floor patterns not chosen for installation.
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