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Neighborhood of Seventy Low-Cost Houses: Colombia House Layout Process on Site
2 2nd verion
32-page document describing the layout process for the Colombia house in two major parts. Part One “Layout of the Street”, establishes the way by which the specific location of house volumes contributes in shaping the street as a whole. This step is completed by the architect on site; Part Two “Layout of House”, is completed by the family and the assisting architect, and establishes the five main centers of the house and its detailed interior layout. Two additional versions of the document are included, with same contents and similar handwritten editing, while the first one includes explanatory drawings for selected steps of the layout process.
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The Layout Process of Buildings on the Land - Visualization at Full Scale on Site
Each act of building needs to have a positive effect on its surroundings; to complete them, preserve their structure, make them better, by creating strong centers in them and next to them. Each new building is more alive when it ...
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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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Neighborhood of Seventy Low-Cost Houses: Photographs of sketches
8 8th step - Continuation of the same process for shaping cross streets
01/05/1986
Eight sketches by Christopher Alexander and Artemis Anninou regarding the site layout and design process, which show a simulation of eight layout consecutive steps to be performed on the actual site, for completing the form of a street with its ...
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Neighborhood of Seventy Low-Cost Houses: Photographs of sketches
9 9) House volume relation to land configuration - 3rd set of cross section diagrams
01/05/1986
Nine sketches by Christopher Alexander and Artemis Anninou showing the sequential steps of the house volume layout and design process, initially simulated and tested on paper and models. A more advanced version of them was implemented on the actual site ...