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Pasadena Zoning Ordinance for Multi-Family Housing: Design Development Drawings – Simulation plan of a pilot neighborhood
5 5) Building volumes only
Simulation plans of a pilot neighborhood studying building volumes and open spaces, and their interconnectedness. Five drawings focusing on the central three elements of the study towards formulating a new design ordinance for the city of Pasadena and simulating the expected outcome. The three elements –Building volumes, Gardens and courtyards, Roads, driveways and open parking spaces– are directly linked to each other as each one gives form to the other two.
Drawing:
- 1) Building volume layouts on ground floor level formulating coherent open spaces and connections
- 2) Roads, driveways and open parking spaces highlighted in purple
- 3) Positive space of gardens and courtyards, highlighted in green
- 4) Positive space of gardens & courtyards together with roads
- 5) Building volumes only
References
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The Unfolding of Public Space and Gardens as Positive Space
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 ...
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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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Project Specific Pattern Languages - Specificity and Generality of Pattern Languages
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, ...
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Pasadena Zoning Ordinance for Multi-Family Housing: Design Development Drawings - Simulation plan of a pilot neighborhood
01/01/1987
Early versions of neighborhood simulation plans for studying building volumes and open spaces, and their interconnectedness. Four free-hand layout simulation versions of building volumes for the study of the pilot neighborhood area.
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Pasadena Zoning Ordinance for Multi-Family Housing: Design Development Drawings - Simulation plan of a pilot neighborhood
01/01/1987
Another early layout simulation version for the study of a neighborhood depicting all three key aspects of design, namely building volumes, gardens and parking.
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Pasadena Zoning Ordinance for Multi-Family Housing: Design Development Drawings - Simulation plan
01/01/1987
Simulation plan of a neighborhood developed piecemeal, through individual projects, according to the rules of the proposed ordinance.
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