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Julian Street Inn (Shelter for the Homeless, San Jose)

Building by Alexander cited as a case where every symmetry is necessary, creating groundedness.

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Claims (3)

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Each of the four examples (doll, Julian Street Inn, West Dean bench, Linz alcoves) has the minimal structure for its situation that carries weight of feeling.
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Keeping 15% of the work under direct craft control while 85% is conventional can affect 50-70% of the building's emotional and artistic impact.
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Practical claim about the disproportionate impact of focused specialty work.
The Julian Street Inn has the quality that every symmetry is just what is required, making those who stay there feel grounded and more whole.
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Concepts (1)

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everything necessary quality
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A building quality where every element present is exactly what is necessary, nothing superfluous, inducing groundedness and wholeness.

Quotes (1)

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This is the only building I have ever been in where everything — I mean really everything — is necessary.
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A remark from a man staying at the Julian Street Inn, illustrating the 'everything necessary' quality.

Artifacts (1)

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Memo on Construction Method (January 29, 1989)
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A memorandum by Christopher Alexander to Al deLudovico detailing twelve examples of extraordinary care in the Julian Street Inn construction.

Chapters (1)

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Chapter 4: How Differently A Living Process Generates Large Public Buildings
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The working unit chapter that presents Alexander's method for generating large public buildings through living process, illustrated by six major projects.

Related by similarity (5)

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Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

What is it about the Julian Street Inn, and its centers, which gives them a special life, which makes them more authentic, or more deeply adapted, more truly derived from the wholeness which is there?question0.699
Comparative question contrasting successful living process with postmodern failure.
The Julian Street Inn's centers meet the four conditions lacking in the Berlin Library: strong smaller centers, non-imitative origin, emergence from wholeness, and contribution to larger centers.claim0.698
Contrastive evaluation showing success of the living process.
In the Julian Street Inn, all ornamental details are necessary because they contribute to the wholeness and make the larger wholes work better.claim0.675
Interpretation of the homeless man's observation that all parts felt necessary.
Julian Street Inn tiled wall contains 60,000-100,000 living centers across 200 feet, each tile over 20 strong centersfinding0.671
Empirical claim about the density of living centers achieved through hand-crafted design iterative process.
City of San Jose Redevelopment Authorityinstitute0.650
Agency that requested a beautiful gateway building for the Julian Street Inn site.