Moshav Shorashim: Detailed notes by Christopher Alexander describing six days of laying out the settlement with the families on the site

01/05/1981

Design Matters, Layout Process on Site

Twelve typewritten pages with titles as follows: Layout Day 1, End of First Day, Second Day Tasks, End of Second Day, Third Day Open Questions, End of Third Day, Comments on Communal Plan at End of Third Day, Fourth Day, Fifth Day Preparations, Sixth Day, Tasks for Nili; two additional pages with handwritten calculations of areas.

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Center for Environmental Structure , Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

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Project

Moshav Shorashim New Settlement - Master Plan, Clusters of Houses and Public Buildings 1977 to 1983

Galilee, Israel

Master Planning, Residential, Realized , Construction completed in Jul-1983

Client:

The Jewish Agency of Israel; the Ministry of Housing; the Garin Sof Ma'arav

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Amos Gitai, Howard Davis, Artemis Anninou, Nili Portugali

Contractor:

Jewish Agency general contractor and subcontractors

Project cost:

$3,000,000

Project stages:

Layout on the site by clients and C.E.S. Generic rules for urban growth process Design Development drawings done after layout

Master Plan for a new settlement for Jewish immigrants with the social structure of a community, where land and work profits are owned collectively, but still each family has its own house. Unlike other master plans, it describes the life, the ...

References

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