Housing Plan for Guasare New Town: Photographs of drawings

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, ...

Outdoor space is positive when it is shaped just as a room is shaped. It has a contained character, it is bounded by walls, fences, natural vegetation, enclosure of some kind. It looks into other positive spaces, some larger, some ...

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 ...

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 ...

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; ...

Four photographs of a small scale simulation model out of balsa wood, for testing the main rules for the layout of house volumes, gardens and garden walls, and the parallel formation of roads. The positive space of gardens is shown ...

A sequence of ten sketches by Christopher Alexander and Artemis Anninou simulating the unfolding of the layout process of a neighborhood. It is a dynamic process driven by the creation of centers in the form of gardens, streets and buildings. ...