Sullivan House

1990 to 1994

Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Residential, Realized , Construction completed in 1996

House reconstruction design and construction management. Concrete, redwood, fruitwood, plaster, terrazzo tiled floors and hand made metal detailed interiors.

Client:

Mr. & Mrs. Steve and Susie Sullivan

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Eleni Coromvli, Katalin Bende

Contractor:

Center for Environmetal Structure

Project cost:

$260,000

Project stages:

Layout on the site by clients and C.E.S. Use of full scale mock-ups Design Development and Building Permit drawings done after layout Direct construction management and on-site design decisions Budget and subcontractors under C.E.S. control

Contents

Construction Innovations

Correspondence

Sullivan House: Letter to request the disregarding of invoice # 3233 for $574.09 and use #3251 in its place with a request for check. Copy of invoice included 06/09/1991

Financial, Request for Payment

Sender:

Susan Burr, HB Electric Inc., Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Recipient:

Eleni Coromvli, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Letter

Records

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Photographs

References

Scientific Research

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Books

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

Authors:

Christopher Alexander

Publisher:

The Center for Environmental Structure Publishing, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

No of pages:

697 pp

“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, ...

Book Chapters

Models & Mock-ups

Photographs

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Course Material

Arch 263A, Fall 1995 - Terrazzo Tile Making: Construction experience course within the Building Process Area of Emphasis 01/09/1995

Academic, Student Work, Paper

Authors:

Jeff Clark, Eric Davis, University of California Berkeley, College of Environmental Design, Department of Architecture, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Short paper for Architecture 263A, describing the process followed for the production of terrazzo tiles, including photographs from the sequential steps.