Pasadena Zoning Ordinance for Multi-Family Housing: Design Development Drawings – Simulation Plan of a Pilot Neighborhood

The purpose of the draft ordinance was to define new guidelines which would permit high intensity development to continue in a way which is in keeping with Pasadena's heritage. Respect for the existing physical qualities of the old Pasadena residential ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Another early layout simulation version for the study of a neighborhood depicting all three key aspects of design, namely building volumes, gardens and parking.

Simulation plan of a neighborhood developed piecemeal, through individual projects, according to the rules of the proposed ordinance.