Berkeley Civic Center Expansion

1970

Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Civic, Designed , Not built

Program and schematic design for an extension of the existing Civic Center. It included detailed space program and plan, with assignment of spaces and optimum layout for the departments of the Civic Center, with proposals for its overall form and plan. The total required area of office space was 46,000 square feet. .

Client:

City of Berkeley - Mr. William Hanley, City Manager

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Ronald Walkey, Barbara Schreiner

Project cost:

$2,000,000 construction cost

Project stages:

Pattern language for the project by C.E.S. Concept Design

Contents

Reports

Berkeley Civic Center Expansion Schematic Design: Recommendations for the Future of the Berkeley Civic Center 01/01/1970

Project Report

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Ronald Walkey, Barbara Schreiner, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

The design proposal included the following fifteen categories of recommendations: 1. Budget and square foot estimates; 2. Parking; 3. Building height; 4. Department and divisions; 5. Court House; 6. Counsil Chamber; 7. Open space; 8. Building shape; 9. Future expansion ...

References

Scientific Research

Development of first Patterns and Pattern Languages

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Pattern Languages in Practice

The first patterns were developed in 1967 by a group of people working together with Christopher Alexander in the Center for Environmental Structure. Between 1968 and 1976 the first pattern languages were developed and tested for particular projects undertaken by ...

Books

A Pattern Language 1977

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Shlomo Angel

Publisher:

Oxford University Press, New York, NY, U.S.A.

No of pages:

1,171 pp

“A Pattern Language” is the second volume of “The Center for Environmental Structure Series” on architecture published by Oxford University Press. You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to ...

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