Drawing

Housing Plan for Guasare New Town: Sketches for the global layout of neighborhoods

01/01/1982

Architectural Design, Sketches

Sketch illustrating a vision of the town as “a system of arterial collector roads, with neighborhoods hanging on these collectors like a bunch of grapes,” accompanied with four pages of grid-like versions of incremental growth of the future town development.

Designers:

Christopher Alexander, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Photocopy

Size:

8 1/2"x11"

Content of

Project

Housing Plan for Guasare New Town 1981 to 1983

Guasare, Maracaibo, Venezuela

Neighborhood Planning, Designed , Completed in May-1983

Client:

"Corpozulia", the Public Development Corporation of the State of Zulia - represented by Mrs. Rosario Giusti de Perez, Director of the New Town Development Plan

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Artemis Anninou, Martine Weissmann, Hansjoachim Neis

Project stages:

Generative rules for urban growth process Generative rules for the neighborhood layout process Generative rules for house layout process by users Implementation process

The project focused on the housing component of the master plan for the new town of Guasare, in the state of Maracaibo, Venezuela, planned to accomodate several thousand workers. The design of its neighborhoods, each one for about 250 families, ...

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References

Reports

Neighborhood Plans for Guasare New Town: The Construction of New Neighborhoods for Guasare New Town, Venezuela 01/05/1983

Project, Project Report

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Artemis Anninou, Martine Weissmann, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

197-page report on the design process and physical layout for the Guasare neighborhoods, organized in five chapters, as follows: Chapter 1. The layout of the individual neighborhood; Chapter 2. The layout of the individual house; Chapter 3. Financing and administration; ...