Book Chapter

The Patterns, Patio Section, Translucent Opening Patio Roof

Book title:

Houses Generated by Patterns

Pages:

182-184

Content of

Book

Houses Generated by Patterns 1969

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Sanford Hirshen, Sara Ishikawa, Christie Coffin, Shlomo Angel

Publisher:

Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

No of pages:

221 pp

The second of Alexander’s early works published by the Center for Environmental Structure, lays out the process of creating the pattern language for a group of houses designed for an experimental housing competition in Lima, Peru in 1969. It ...

References

Scientific Research

Innovative Construction Systems, Techniques and Materials

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Construction Innovation

One of the main topics of research, included in every building project, was to identify, early on in the design process, the material and techniques of construction. This would re-establish building as an art, and allow rapid shaping and adaptation, ...

Construction Innovations

Peru Project - Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Translucent opening patio roof 1969

Building Detail, Roof & Eave

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Sanford Hirshen, Sara Ishikawa, Christie Coffin, Shlomo Angel

Transulent dacron sailcloth is used to cover patio openings, for controlling weather conditions. Fastened to the roof on one side, has snap fasteners on the opposite side, and on the other two sides rings sawn into it, which run on ...