Go BackEmergence of Geometric Order in Building Structure
Focusing primarily on the pure beauty of the geometric order, which comes, above all, from the building structure (columns, walls, beams, vaults and so forth), specifically from the aperiodic grids which form the abstract underpinning of the building structure.
Thoughts and Arguments Explored and Developed
Focusing only on the pure beauty of the structural order
Beauty of structure and positive space
Appearance of coherent form
Simplicity of form
References
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The Nature of Order - An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe.
Book Two - The Process of Creating Life
2002
“The Process of Creating Life”, the second volume of “The Nature of Order” series presents a dynamic theory of living structure. It begins with an analysis of transformations, which occur in nature, and the distinction between structure-preserving transformations, responsible for ...
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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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Chapter 15. Emergence of Formal Geometry, 10 / A Generative Process for Middle-Ranfe Order in the Building Structure
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Chapter 15. Emergence of Formal Geometry, 11 / What Seems as an Imposition of Geometry is Necessary as a Part of Every Living Process
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15. Emergence of Formal Geometry, 2 / Formation of Brutal and Massive Chunks in the Visitor Center at West Dean
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Linz Café
1980
Built as part of the international exposition "Forum Design" and designed to be "portable". Wooden building overlooking the Danube, with the first floor of the building raised to clear the ten-foot-high river embarkment. Yellow and red exterior, three stories, 2,300 ...
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Sala House
1981 to
1983
Three-story tower, 20 feet by 20 feet in plan on each floor, on a wooded, sloping site. The interior structure of the house is wood post and beam with pine panelling and hand-painted surfaces, and the exterior is a red ...
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Sapporo Apartment Building
1981 to
1982
Ten-story apartment building, with forty-five one-bedroom and two-bedroom apartments, with shops and offices on the first three floors. The building, of concrete-encased steel, was to be built over an existing clinic. The structural frame consists of twenty enormous columns ran all ...
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Linz Café: "Aperiodic" grid of the timber post and beam structural frame
1980
Post and beam structural system which fits the structure of the spaces initially conceived, and is based on a structural grid with differentiated spacing of the grid lines in both directions, long and short, keeping the variations regular. The use ...
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Sapporo Apartment Building: Structural order in the concrete-encased steel load bearing structure
1982
This innovative structural scheme arose from the careful unfolding of the design with respect to user requirements, the impact of surrounding buildings, coupled with the fact that there was an untouchable small clinic on the site which had to be ...
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Eishin Campus - High School: Great Hall with massive columns and rather small space between them.
1983
The size and spacing of the columns in the Great Hall was determined primarily by working out the solid-void relationship, which was done in a 1:20 scale model of the building. The space between the columns came to play an ...
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The Linz Café: Perspective sketches exploring preliminary ideas for the building
01/01/1980
Nine perspective sketches of the building, studies on the building volumes and the use of canopies for the balconies .
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The Linz Café: Elevation sketches exploring preliminary ideas for the building
01/01/1980
Seven sketches of building elevations studying the general proportions of the building elements.
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The Linz Café: Section sketches exploring preliminary ideas for the building
01/01/1980
Seven sketches of longitudinal and cross sections of the building, studying the interior elevations and the proportions of the interior spaces.
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The Linz Café: Photographs of drawings
01/01/1980
Floor plans of the three levels of the building with dimensions and floor material information.
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Sapporo Apartment Building: Photographs of project model
01/01/1982
Two views of the balsa-wood model of the apartment building, on a stand in the CES office in Martinez.
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Sala House: Photographs of drawings
01/01/1982
Building section with framing plans, window sections and other wood framing details.
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