Report

The Julian Street Inn – Shelter for the Homeless: HIP Project – Dinning Hall Truss

09/12/1987

Engineering Report, Structural

42-page report on the truss design regarding Down loads, Live loads, Wind loads and Earthquakes. An analytical computer re-run of the nodes for the final truss design are incorporated in the report.

Authors:

A. J. Miller, A. J. Miller and Associates, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Christopher Alexander, Gary Black, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Content of

Project

Julian Street Inn - Shelter for the Homeless 1986 to 1990

Julian St. & Montgomery St., San Jose, CA, U.S.A.

Civic, Realized , Construction completed in 1989; final interior painting in 1990

Client:

Housing for Independent People - Al DiLudovico, Executive Director

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Gary Black, Artemis Anninou, Carl Lindberg, James Maguire, Eleni Coromvli, Kleoniki Tsotropoulou

Contractor:

Oliver and Company, with Center for Environmetal Structure as major specialty subcontractor

Project cost:

$1,700,000

Project stages:

Pattern language for project by clients and C.E.S. Layout by clients and C.E.S. Use of full scale mock-ups Design Development and Building Permit drawings Direct Construction management and on-site design decisions Budget and subcontractors under C.E

Design and construction of a shelter for homeless people, to serve 50 to 100 people, on a site of 13,000 sf. The building of 15,000 square feet includes offices, living areas with a dining hall, sleeping rooms, courtyards and gardens. ...

References

Construction Innovations

Julian Street Inn - Shelter for the Homeless: Lacework concrete trusses with curved members shot in the air 1988

Construction System, Sprayed Concrete

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Gary Black, Carl Lindberg, Avery Miller, James Maguire

The dining hall of Julian street inn is the higher building volume of the complex; the hall, a sigle room, 30 feet wide and 50 feet long, was intended to seat about 100 people. When the shape of the volume ...

Reports

The Julian Street Inn - Shelter for the Homeless: Structural Engineering Contract 27/03/1987

Project, Contractual, Design Services Agreement

Authors:

A. J. Miller, A. J. Miller and Associates, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Christopher Alexander, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Al DiLudovio, Housing for Independent People Inc., San Jose, CA, U.S.A.

5-page signed contract between the Center for Environmental Structure and A.J. Miller and Associates for providing structural engineering services for the 15,000 square feet building designed by the C.E.S.; co-signed by Housing for Independent People, Inc.

Records

The Julian Street Inn - Shelter for the Homeless: Open lacework concrete trusses shot in place with gunite: Structural element analysis run for truss #5 - Final Lily truss 03/08/1987

Construction Innovation, Design Matters, Calculations

Authors:

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

Truss #5 draft structural analysis containing 36 pages of complete computer-run data of the final concrete lace truss dated 3-Aug-1987.