Arbeidsmanus Rapport 5: User Design and Architectural Form – Continuation of the “Pattern Language” Method; Supplementary Notes to “Sequences” – Issue: Mobilizing the User

01/05/2002

Research Paper

28-page report on providing a more operative version of “pattern language design” in the form of “sequences”. The work process had relied on making design decisions in “real space”, i.e. directly on the site. It includes 1) Commentary_IFK, Summary, Appendix I-III; 2) “Lunch Time Game”_CA; 3) Example.

Authors:

Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Christopher Alexander, Jenny Quillien, Randall Schmidt, Institut for Byggekunst NTNU & Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

References

Scientific Research

The Sequence of Unfolding - Generative Codes for the Design Process

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Structure Preserving Transformations

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 ...
Patterns in Software Development

Areas of focus:

Connections to Other Sciences

Guiding idea:

Software Development

Christopher Alexander had developed a long and diverse relationship to the use of computers in design since the 1960s. It culminated with the interest the computer software community showed to the idea of pattern and pattern languages and how the ...