“Small Work Groups” Pattern

“A Pattern Language” is the second volume of “The Center for Environmental Structure Series” on architecture published by Oxford University Press. You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to ...

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 ...

A shared pattern language in a project acts as the generic system which gives the power to the smaller local acts to form a whole. Within the process of making a project, every individual act of building differentiates space. However, ...

Program and schematic design for an extension of the existing Civic Center. It included detailed space program and plan, with assignment of spaces and optimum layout for the departments of the Civic Center, with proposals for its overall form ...

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 ...

The design proposal included the following fifteen categories of recommendations: 1. Budget and square foot estimates; 2. Parking; 3. Building height; 4. Department and divisions; 5. Court House; 6. Counsil Chamber; 7. Open space; 8. Building shape; 9. Future expansion ...

5-page list of patterns organized hierarchically as per the building space components; the description of the fifty proposed patterns can be found under “Early Patterns” .