Master Planning Process for the Town of Marsta: Sketches – Cluster of Houses
01/01/1972Nine pages with drawings depicting the steps of the layout process for a cluster of houses, using patterns. The first sketch depict families actively involved in designing and laying out. The remaining eight sketches depict the seven steps of the cluster layout process, each one focusing on the implementation of a couple of patterns and their interaction, for the formation of positive space. The sequence of steps is the following: Layout process Step-1 applies patterns “Cell Gateway” and “Degrees of Publicness”; Layout process Step-2 applies patterns “Common Land”, “Path Crossroads” & “Tiny Parking Lots”; Layout process Step-3 applies pattern “Sandbox”; Layout process Step-4 applies pattern “Individual Lots”; Layout process Step-5 applies patterns “Tree Places”, “Outdoor Seats”, & “Public Outdoor Room”; Layout process Step-6 applies pattern “Centripetal Pedestrian Path”; Layout process Step-7 applies patterns “Private Terraces” & “Opening to the Street”.
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Master Planning Process for the Town of Marsta: Sketches - Cluster of Houses
House cluster - The group of user on the site involved in the layout process
01/01/1972
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Master Planning Process for the Town of Marsta: Sketches - Cluster of Houses
House cluster - Layout process Step-1 applies patterns Cell Gateway and Degrees of Publicnes
01/01/1972
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Master Planning Process for the Town of Marsta: Sketches - Cluster of Houses
House cluster - Layout process Step-2 applies patterns Common Land, Path Crossroads & Tiny Parking Lots
01/01/1972
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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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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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Master Planning Process for the Town of Marsta: Sketches - Town Growth for 1973
01/01/1972
Seven region maps with sketches illustrating the implementation of the following patterns as the guiding principles for the design process of a future town development: 1) Farm areas and water supply; 2) Agricultural Valleys; 3) Nature Edges; 4) Urban Ribbon; ...
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Master Planning Process for the Town of Marsta: Sketches - Neighborhoods
01/01/1972
Nine sketches depicting the process of organizing and laying out 350 houses in three distinct neighborhoods by involving various user groups. One user group determining the overall location of housing and its large-scale patterns, and three subgroups determining the patterns ...
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Master Planning Process for the Town of Marsta: Sketches - Apartment Building Plans
01/01/1972
Five drawings describing a rough sequence of design steps to be followed be the user-families for designing an apartment building, applying one basic pattern at each step, followed by three more drawings depicting examples of various apartment designs, that such ...