BART: The Bay Area Takes a Million Dollar Ride – extract on Christopher Alexander

The prevailing idea being the search for goodness of fit between form and its context, Alexander postulated that in today's selfconscious design process, in order to attain a good design there must be an underlying correspondence between the structure of ...

Christopher Alexander, Van Maren King and Sara Ishikawa acted as consultants to Wuster, Bernardi and Emmons, analyzing design problems in the BART stations, and listing the 390 requirements the Rapid System Transit Station should cover, organized in thirty-three groups; all ...

100-page report listing and analyzing design problems in the BART stations, organized in 73 related systems, with proposed solutions; it is followed by the list of the 390 requirements for the Transit Station, grouped as per the proposed systems .

40-page report listing the 390 requirements the Rapid System Transit Station should cover, organized in thirty-three groups; all leading to a safer and more adequate functionally environment. A 37-page draft with numbering variations of work priorities is also included .