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Neighborhood Plans for Guasare New Town: The Construction of New Neighborhoods for Guasare New Town, Venezuela
01/05/1983197-page report on the design process and physical layout for the Guasare neighborhoods, organized in five chapters, as follows: Chapter 1. The layout of the individual neighborhood; Chapter 2. The layout of the individual house; Chapter 3. Financing and administration; Chapter 4. Construction and embellishment of streets; Chapter 5. Contract for implementation.
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The Sequence of Unfolding - Generative Codes for the Design Process
In architecture, as in other things, the "right" sequence is of vital importance. It is a generative sequence of progressive differentiations, which allow space to unfold in the right order. Each differentiation acts on the product of the previous ...
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A New Approach to Design and Construction Management
A new kind of design/construction/management process, especially for large projects, is required, which will allow the building to be conceived, designed and built so that it comes to life. Below are the ground rules of such a process, already tried ...
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Master Planning as a Dynamic Process - Organic Order and Piecemeal Growth
It is simply not possible to fix today, in a Master Plan, what the environment should be like in the future, and then to steer the piecemeal process of development toward that fixed, imaginary world. Instead, planning and construction will ...
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Housing Plan for Guasare New Town: Letter addressed to Rosario, sent via Kevin Lynch traveling to Maracaibo; describes the progress on the work being accomplished, and includes an 8-page attachment on the "Form and Organization of a Typical Guasare Neighborhood", with references on lot subdivision, house growth, house layout the form of the street
01/12/1982
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Housing Plan for Guasare New Town: RE: Center for Environmental Structure. Listing the three attached items being forwarded, and informing on sending the report on the project prepared by the Center for Environmental Structure, under a different cover; report not to be released until payment has been received
10/08/1984
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Housing Plan for Guasare New Town: Re: Center for Environmental Structure. Responding to a telex of 30-Nov-1984 regarding the incomplete tasks mentioned. All these matters are covered by the project report already sent to him in August, also repeating the request of no-release until the long overdue payment has been received; document to be shown only as proof of it being in the possession of the attorney
10/01/1985
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A Process for the Layout of Houses: The Construction of New Neighborhoods for Guasare New Town, Venezuela
01/11/1982
39-page draft of the project report, which concentrates on the actual laying out of the neighborhood and houses, the administration and financing, the construction and street embellishment; with appendices. .
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A Process for the Layout of Houses: The Construction of New Neighborhoods for Guasare New Town, Venezuela
01/02/1983
398-page draft of the project report, with original drawings and sketches; the draft includes chapters on the neighborhood layout process, on the individual house layout process, on construction methods, on the financial aspects of the project, on construction methods and ...
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Housing Plan for Guasare New Town: Preliminary Design Drawings - Neighborhood Plans
01/01/1982
Two simulation plans of the detailed internal structure of two neighborhood areas.
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Housing Plan for Guasare New Town: Preliminary Design Drawings - Neighborhood Street Elevations
01/01/1982
Two elevations of the neighborhood streets, conveying their character .
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Housing Plan for Guasare New Town: Sketches for the global layout of neighborhoods
01/01/1982
Sketch illustrating a vision of the town as “a system of arterial collector roads, with neighborhoods hanging on these collectors like a bunch of grapes,” accompanied with four pages of grid-like versions of incremental growth of the future town development.
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Neighborhood Plans for Guasare New Town: Housing Production in Guasare
25/09/1982
14-page document with tentative conclusions regarding the housing production in the new town of Guasare, discussed by the design group of ISA, and tentatively approved. Includes points crucial to the organization of the project, describing the percentages of family-owned (“user-intimate”) ...
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Neighborhood Plans for Guasare New Town: Comments on the document "The Form and Organization of a Typical Guasare Neighborhood", sent by C.E.S. on Dec. 1982, as attachment to a letter to Rosario Giusti de Perez
01/01/1983
Thirteen pages with comments on the house designs and their adaptability to the topography, the climate, the forming streets and their length, the possibility of a piecemeal growth, the urban character of the streets, the forming public spaces, and the ...
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Housing Plan for Guasare New Town: Photographs of drawings
01/01/1982
Drawing of a typical house with the courtyard as its main center.
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Housing Plan for Guasare New Town: Photographs of sketches simulating the layout proces
01/01/1982
A sequence of ten sketches by Christopher Alexander and Artemis Anninou simulating the unfolding of the layout process of a neighborhood. It is a dynamic process driven by the creation of centers in the form of gardens, streets and buildings. ...
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Housing Plan for Guasare New Town: Photographs of drawings
01/01/1982
Simulation plan of the process for laying out a neighborhood, done in the laboratory, for testing a new process, while formulating the sequence of its steps. These drawings show how the defined process, and the sequence of operations, interact with ...
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