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Master Planning Process for the Town of Marsta: Sketches – Repair of an existing building and its surroundings
9 7th pattern for Music school ‘Student Faculty Mix’
The Music School of the University of Oregon was used as an example for demonstrating the process of repair of an exisitng building. Ten sketches illustrate the sequential steps followed for the diagnosis of existing problems and the solutions proposed by the user group applying relevant patterns.
Drawing:
- Music school user group meeting with the architects
- Music school existing site plan
- 1st pattern for Music school 'University Street'
- 2nd pattern for Music school 'Activity Nuclei'
- 3rd pattern for Music school 'Activity Nucleus'
- 4th pattern for Music school 'Circulation Realms'
- 5th pattern for Music school 'Pedestrian Path'
- 6th pattern for Music school 'Department Hearth'
- 7th pattern for Music school 'Student Faculty Mix'
- Music school site plan, as repaired after the application of patterns
Content of
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Master Plan for the University of Oregon
1969 to
1971
A complete user-based master plan for the University of Oregon, in Eugene, introducing a new planning theory, which replaced the predominant theory of master plans. It gave primacy to the use of pattern languages and user design, in the continuous ...
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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 ...
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Master Plan for the University of Oregon
1967 to
1973
A complete user-based master plan for the University of Oregon, in Eugene, introducing a new planning theory, which replaced the predominant theory of master plans. It gave primacy to the use of pattern languages and user design, in the continuous ...
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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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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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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