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Master Planning Process for the Town of Marsta: Sketches – Public Building
9 8th pattern South Facing Open Space
The Stanislaus County Community Mental Health Center project, under construction in 1972, was used as example for demonstrating the layout process for a public building on the land. Ten sketches illustrate in sequential order the basic patterns used in the layout process, which shaped the overall scheme of the project, building volumes, open spaces, and main circulation.
Drawing:
- Group of users and architects ready to commence work on the site
- 1st pattern 'Human Scale of Public Buildings'
- 2nd pattern 'Entrance Location'
- 3rd pattern 'Main Street'
- 4th pattern 'Circulation Realms'
- 5th pattern 'Social Areas at the Heart of Therapy'
- 6th pattern 'Family of Entrances'
- 7th pattern 'Convex Open Space'
- 8th pattern South Facing Open Space
- 9th pattern 'Short Corridors'
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Stanislaus County Mental Health Center
1970 to
1973
A community mental health center for outpatients and outpatient care with seven buildings, including clinics, outpatient facilities, therapeutic departments for adults, teenagers and children, staff facilities, administrative offices, gardens, courts and walkways, with total area 24,000 square feet. The key ...
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Master Planning Process for the Town of Marsta
1972
Master Plan based on the fundametal idea of a planning process which allows the planning office of Sigtuna Marsta commune together with representative users to make planning decisions for themselves. The process, organized on the basis of four elements "Pattern ...
References
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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
7 7) 'Scattered Work' pattern
01/01/1972
Sequence of seven sketches on a regional map, each one illustrating the implementation of a pattern as one of the guiding principles for the design process of a future town development. The patterns refer to large scale design issues.
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Master Planning Process for the Town of Marsta: Sketches - Neighborhoods
9 9) Interaction of user groups participating in the project
01/01/1972
Sequence of 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 ...
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Master Planning Process for the Town of Marsta: Sketches - Apartment Building Plans
8 Third example of family apartment
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 ...
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