Go BackDesign studio on the Pasadena Multi-family Housing
Spring 1987The Spring 1987 design studio addressed the generative sequences for the process of design and the issuance of building permits for a new class of apartment buildings in Pasadena, which would respect its tradition by making the garden the most important and central entity, and building relatively low compact apartment buildings around the garden.
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Arch.201: Pasadena Multi-family Housing - Photographs of student model
01/03/1987
Twelve views of student model prepared in Spring 1987 M.Arch studio on “Pasadena Multi-Family Housing”.
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Arch.201: Pasadena Multi-family Housing - Photographs of student model
01/06/1987
Five overall views of the model prepared by eleven students in the Spring 1987 M.Arch studio; the students tested layout rules for the formation of positive urban space and beautiful gardens as the centers of each project. Emphasis was given ...
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Arch.201: Pasadena Multi-family Housing - Photographs of student model
01/06/1987
Five close-up views of part of the model made by Kleoniki Tsotropoulou and Shengfong Lin, testing layout rules for the formation of positive urban space and beautiful gardens as the centers of each project. Emphasis was given on the way ...
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Arch. 201, Spring 1987 - Pasadena Multi-Family Housing: Material on the course organization
1 1) 'Summary of Present Rules' with the three types of allowed densities
01/03/1987
Three handouts to the students with information on the organization of the studio course and on the building code rules applied in Pasadena, to be used and studied in their housing designs.
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Arch. 201, Spring 1987 - Pasadena Multi-Family Housing: Building rules & sequences developed and tested in the studio project
01/03/1987
Material provided to the students to be used in the project development: 1) 8-page typed design guidelines on the “Sequence for the Emergence of Entities in an Apartment Complex”; 2) Hand-written notes on “Assumptions for Class Model”; 3) Hand-written notes ...
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Arch. 201, Spring 1987 - Pasadena Multi-Family Housing: Building rules & sequences developed and tested in the studio project
15/03/1987
Five sets of student notes on the elaboration of rules and sequences to be used in the studio project: 1) Four pages on “List of Rules for Pasadena Multi-family Housing” first draft, Arch. 201; 2) Five pages on “Elements, Patterns ...
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References
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Designing with Patterns and Generic Rules for Making Centers
Pattern languages consist of a multitude of patterns which reflect and define a way of life, people's inner feelings and aspirations, they relate to culture, to climate and to the actual place, and they are rooted in observation. During the pattern ...
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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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Dynamics of a Growing Neighborhood - Rules and Patterns for Laying out a Neighborhood
Neighborhoods and communities grow and change over time, and the effect of time on the process of its adaptation on real needs is huge, and leads to types and styles of order quite different from any planned arrangement, based on ...