The Blues Process Pin-up: Guitar Center Drawings

Here lies a pin-up of the essential design elements within the 

Guitar Center Building. Within this set 

there are plans, elevations, sections and details.

Portico Perspective

Interior Acoustic Fans

2 Stage Section

Initial Plan

Music Stage Section

Light-well and Lever Reflectors

The Bathroom

First Elevation

Second and Third Elevation

Speaking Stage

Floor into Wall cladding

Front Portico band

Structural Timber Plan

Roofing, Insulation and Purloin Vault

Built in gutter system

Back Elevation

Front Elevation and Store Elevation

Front Elevation with Portico band

Detailing End beams in Hierarchy

Detail of beams and Purloins

Slit in wood with window/bathroom wall

East Cloister

Store Interior and Floor to Wall cladding

Rosette window mullions

Elevations

Floor Plan

Detail of bathroom wall

Detail of Purloin and Beam Joint

Sun Shade Peg system

Materials: Spruce or Ceder Walls

Materials: Walnut Floor

Site Location: Healdburg, CA

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Structure: the breakdown of timber

“True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a park.”    Frank Lloyd Wright

With the first achievement of a structural design, true light may penetrate the outer shell to find usefulness within. Heavy timber or laminated beams have become a device of evil for it allows a wood building to span many feet. Indeed this is a wonder though I am failing to fight the temptation of something so large. Already spanning 100ft in both directions, this light guitar center has become a massive structure.

 

The Mobile Bus Home: from the quaint to the quiet

       "For the framed mind of a few,

the bus can be a joy and a trial as one may create within a being of life."

Designing a mobile home to particularity within the scoped lives of the clients tends to muster a greater work than that of the "simple camper." I found this metaphor quite useful in designing this home.

The bus is like a hermit crabs shell where one slides in and out to find what they desire.

They travel among the land's powerful valleys and mountains finding love, light, and life.

With only their possessions, a being can be a being.

Artifact: the manifestation of a Celestial Guitar Center

Today I presented a wonderful work in which the creation of a particular understanding was displayed; contributing to the Guitar Center in Healdsburg, California building design. The justified behavior of an 'artifact' may be debated but indeed it does portray or at least governs some set of tools to help aid in design.

The 'artifact' expresses:

the experience of playing and creating guitars 

or Luthierism is like picking flowers. 

A beauty is found, deliberately and meticulously picked 

from within the shroud of "others" and most gently plucked.

The creation finds within itself Comitas Firmitas and Venustas;

an interesting parallelism from Luthierism to Architecture.

The Hjemkomst Center

Hjemkomst Center
The once found trivialities within wood structure stood out today but in a quite new light. A breaking of the seen wood designed buildings limited by nails has but no metal connections within the Halbstat Church in Norway. Here is the replica found within the small center devoted to this wonderful and ancient church in Fargo, ND.

“People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.” 

Albert Einstein