West Dean College Gardens Visitor’s Center – Tables, chairs and benches for the restaurant: Furniture for the West Dean Visitors Center, June 14, 1995

14/06/1995

Design Matters, Project Standards

Four pages of an initial draft with specifications and dimensions of various furniture for the restuarant and upper gallery: 1) Five rectangular tables; 2) Four approximatelly square tables; 3) Five wall bracket tables of the upper gallery; 4) Four ellipse tables by the windows in the upper gallery; 5) Sixty five chairs; 6) Two benches and other special tables at the ends of the gallery.

Authors:

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

Content of

Construction Innovation

West Dean College Gardens Visitor's Center: Tables, chairs and benches for the restaurant 1995

Work of Art for Project, Project Furniture

Created by:

Christopher Alexander

Tables of various shapes and sizes, chairs and benches designed and made specifically for the restaurant and its upper gallery. Cardboard and wooden mock-ups of the furniture were designed while the building was stil in construction, for reconciling the feeling ...

References

Projects

West Dean College Gardens Visitor's Center 1994 to 1996

Near Chichester, West Sussex, U.K.

Civic, Realized , Construction completed in Nov. 1995

Client:

Edward James Foundation

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, John Hewitt, students from "The Prince of Wales's Institute of Architecture", students from Portsmouth University

Contractor:

Center for Environmetal Structure, as Management Contractor and General Contractor of record, with John Hewitt as Project Manager

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 Innovativ

The West Dean Center is a simple one-story masonry building with a large red-tiled roof and intricate brickwork for its thick walls. The building is surrounded by gardens, and its south facing wall has large arched windows overlooking the garden ...

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