Neighborhood of Five Houses: Craftsman/Subcontractor Agreement

07/12/1995

Construction Works, Subcontracting Services

Subcontract between Center for Environmental Structure and Zephyr Masonry to complete upper common walls and the Goddu yard, more specifically, to continue details of work already complete or set on site and then to strip all formwork and remove the debris; signed 7-Dec-1995.

Authors:

William C. Bagwell, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA , U.S.A.

Content of

Project

Neighborhood of Five Houses 1992 to 1995

Lake Travis, Austin, TX, U.S.A.

Residential, Realized , Construction completed in 1995

Client:

Representative - Mrs. Linda Gioja

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Saul Pichardo, Randall Schmidt

Contractor:

Center for Environmetal Structure with Carl Lindberg

Project cost:

Total project price: $800,000

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

Cluster of five houses with common land and communal structures, located on Lake Travis, outside Austin, Texas; only three out of the initial five houses were built. The three house designs were made in close consultation with each family, which ...

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