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Modesto Community Mental Health Center: Incomplete Pattern Language for Community Mental Health Centers
01/06/1970Introductory summary followed by twenty-five distinct patterns; each pattern provides the solution to a problem related to the following: Community, Mental Health Center, Public Gathering Place, Main Entrance, Inpatient, Outpatient, Day Care, Circulation, Patients Social Area, Alcoves – Windows, Day Care for Children, Therapy Rooms, Intensive Care Room.
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Development of first Patterns and Pattern Languages
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 ...
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Project Specific Pattern Languages - Specificity and Generality of Pattern Languages
A shared pattern language in a project acts as the generic system which gives the power to the smaller local acts to form a whole. Within the process of making a project, every individual act of building differentiates space. However, ...
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Participation of the Users in the Design Process - Testing and Applying Pattern Languages and Layout Rules
Christopher Alexander believed that people have a right to determine and shape their environment. The genuine and wholehearted involvement of the users in the shaping of their buildings contributes positively to good architecture. It gives life, identity and personal qualities ...
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"Buildings Surround Open Space" Pattern
01/04/1966
Early formulation of pattern on a 2-page format with: Title of Pattern, Photo, Statement of Problem, Solution, Diagram, Author/s, Date, revision Date and Notes; revised in 1970.
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"Eight Beds per Nurse" Pattern
01/01/1967
Early formulation of pattern on a 2-page format with: Title of Pattern, Photo, Statement of Problem, Solution, Diagram, Author/s, Date, revision Date and Notes. Revised in Dec-1970.
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"Sleeping OK" Pattern - Original
01/07/1968
Early formulation of pattern on a 2-page format with: Title of Pattern, Photo, Statement of Problem, Solution, Diagram, Author/s, Date, revision Date and Notes; included in “A Pattern Language”, pattern #94 Sleeping in Public. Revised in Jun-1970.
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Modesto Community Mental Health Center: Photographs of drawings
01/01/1971
Volumetric schematic layout of the building complex; a sketch of the initial idea for the layout of the clinic, on the basis of the fundamental principles and patterns.
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Modesto Community Mental Health Center: Photographs of drawings
01/01/1971
Initial sketch for the clinic layout produced by the first participants in the project workshop, during a charette; a spatial organization of initial patterns and courtyards.