BUILDING DETAILS

from projects designed and built by Christopher Alexander and his associates from

PATTERNLANGUAGE.COM / CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STRUCTURE

in conjunction with the users and families of users who worked with us.

Heavy oak timber and cast plaster ceiling

 

 

 

 

 

Heavy Timber Shop, Martinez California

 

Column and beam structure

 

 

 

gateway to garden

 

Water in daily life: pond, base of building, stone pond wall, and boats

 

Fireplace

 

Ornamental cast and trowelled plaster ceiling

 

Gunite column and beam load-bearing structure

 

Hand-painted tile set in Berryessa foundation

 

 

 

 

Roof edge

 

 

Cast concrete railing

 

Columns in the San Jose Homeless Shelter

 

 

Concrete Roof Trusses

 

 

 

Building a roof using lowcost barrel vaults

 

Process of making lowcost barrel vault roof

 

window with sconces

 

Arch through window

 

Ornamental leadwork

 

 

berryessa stair with diamonds of sunlight

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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