Go BackRiverside Community of Strood
2005Regarding the rebirth of a working community in Riverside, within the framework of the United Kingdom governmental policy to rebuilt massive amounts of housing. Proposal for a generative process intended to create a rich qualitative environment, of precisely the sort that had proven itself sustainable in the past, in which the community would have a decisive role. Furthermore, it was intended to construct a fabric of businesses, jobs, place, local economy, interwoven with families and houses and the beauty of the place. The work for the project had started with a three-day workshop given to professionals, officers of local authorities, students and community leaders starting in London on Sep-13, and continuing in Strood on Sep-14 and Sep-15.
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Creating Generative Code for a New Neighborhood of Houses in Strood
06/09/2005
32-page unfinished working draft on the generative process for Strood Housing, part of the United Kingdom governmental policy to rebuilt massive amounts of housing. it shows the broad categories of work, in approximate order of execution, together with the ...
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Unfolding of a Community from Generative Code: The Riverside Community of Strood
02/12/2005
42-page draft on the generative process for Strood Housing, part of the United Kingdom governmental policy to rebuilt massive amounts of housing. The proposal was based a new methodology that builds on the qualitative evaluations of users, and generates a ...
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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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Dynamics of a Growing Neighborhood - Rules and Patterns for Laying out a Neighborhood
Neighborhoods and communities grow and change over time, and the effect of time on the process of its adaptation on real needs is huge, and leads to types and styles of order quite different from any planned arrangement, based on ...