Building Process Area of Emphasis: Professional Apprenticeship – High Density Housing and Pedestrian Villages

Spring 1992

Design studio for advanced students to enable them to work on real project situations, in which design, construction, work with users, and implementation were integrated. Students were asked to take responsibility for assignments connected to real projects. The studio work focused on the Amazon housing project, a village of 340 units of high density housing for the University of Oregon. Part of it was built on Agate street.

University Program:

Master of Architecture

Course type:

Graduate Design Studio

Course number:

Arch. 201-202

Instructors:

Christopher Alexander, Hansjoachim Neis

References

Projects

Student Housing for the University of Oregon 1991 to 1992

Eugene, OR, U.S.A.

Master Planning, Educational, Residential, Designed , Not built

Client:

University of Oregon - Mr. Chris Ramey, Campus Planner

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Hansjoachim Neis

Project cost:

Expected construction cost: $13,000,000; unit cost: $39,000/apartment

Project stages:

Preliminary Design stage in progess

Master plan for 300 units of low-budget student housing on the campus of the University of Oregon -- called the Amazon Plan, to be developed on a 7.5 acres of flat land by replacing 243 existing units. The project basic ...