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Mary Rose Museum
1991 to 1993Museum for Henry VIII's ship, sank in 1547, raised in 1982, and then preserved in a dry dock next to HMS Victory. The museum, with an area of construction of about 8,000 square meters, was to be built over dry dock #3 in the Portsmouth dockyard, and include the reconstruction of the Victory arena. Workshops and conservation areas, educational and display exhibits were part of the museum design. The 1 hectare project area required extensive civil works, landscaping and open public spaces to support the buildings.
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The Mary Rose Museum: Photographs of project model
01/01/1991
Seven views from different angles of the site project model.
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The Mary Rose Museum: Photographs of the project site
01/01/1991
An overview of the project site. The photo was exhibited during the 10th Annual Louis Kahn Memorial Lecture in 1992, where Christopher Alexander was invited to give a lecture.
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The Mary Rose Museum: Photographs of the project site
01/01/1991
Three photographs of HMS Victory, preserved in a dry dock next to Henry VIII’s ship, sank in 1547 and raised in 1982, plus an image of the Victory gate.
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References
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The Sequence of Unfolding - Generative Codes for the Design Process
In architecture, as in other things, the "right" sequence is of vital importance. It is a generative sequence of progressive differentiations, which allow space to unfold in the right order. Each differentiation acts on the product of the previous ...
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Unfolding of Wholeness in Large Buildings by Successive Transformations of the Space
Large building are not easy to design and keep the feeling of intimay in them. The way a large building can be given this quality is by succeeding in the creation of living centers throughout its fabric. The profusion and ...
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Strong Centers in all Levels of Scale
A building can only amount to something as a living thing when the various physical elements which appear in it are profound centers. The dominant feature of the process that is working correctly is that new centers are formed, and ...
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The Mary Rose Museum
1995
“The Mary Rose Museum”, the eight volume of “The Center for Environmental Structure Series” on architecture published by Oxford University Press, tells the story of how this large building was conceived and designed. In 1982, more than four hundred years after ...
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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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The Mary Rose Museum: Arched trusses to span the 30-meter wide dry-dock where the ship was to be permanently housed - Photographs of model
01/01/1991
Three photographs of models, one of the arched trusses in the first model of the museum, and the other two of the arched trusses & bracing.
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The Mary Rose Museum: Arched trusses to span the 30-meter wide dry-dock where the ship was to be permanently housed - Photographs of drawings
01/01/1991
One sketch by Christopher Alexander, depicting an initial section sketch of the museum showing the deep piles of the dry dock with the arched truss, and the other one is a hardline section of the same thing.
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The Mary Rose Museum: Arched trusses to span the 30-meter wide dry-dock where the ship was to be permanently housed - Photographs of drawings
01/01/1991
Perspective of the lattice work of the trusses covering the main exhibition hall.