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THE JULIAN STREET INN
HOMELESS SHELTER

San Jose, CA 1989
designed and built by Christopher Alexander
and his collegues from The Center for Environmental Structure
using techniques described in A Pattern Language
and The Timeless Way of Building

The Julian Street Inn
The dining hall, with buttresses and large windows to fill the room with light
Courtyard
Courtyard of the 100-bed shelter for the homeless, known as the Julian Street Inn
Exterior view
A view of the exterior
Front entrance
A view of the front entrance
The fountain
The fountain in the courtyard
Stairs
Stair to the sleeping rooms
Exterior wall surface
Wall surface of the Julian Street Inn, a continuous waterproof surface of cast concrete columns and heavy frame walls, forming centers that are latent in the structure of the undifferentiated plane and of the bays
Details of a column
Details on the capital of an arcade column
Benches on the exterior
Benches in the sun, along the Julian Street side of the building
Exterior view
A view of the exterior, from the street
Renderings of the completed building
Renderings of the completed building
A scale model
A scale model of the building
Details of tiles
Close-up of the hand painted tiles which decorate the exterior
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