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Winter 1975The project assignment was a simulation for testing a situation in which each family is designing their own apartment on the basis of specific rules, as defined in the C.E.S. project ‘The New Apartment House’. The primary target was to create clusters of houses, instead of a typical apartment building. A site in Berkeley, on the corner of Milvia and Blake streets, was chosen for this simulation. Each student in the class designed their own apartment within the 10 weeks of the class duration, in close coordination with the other students. The user design process, and the time it takes were two main parameters tested.
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Design and Construction is one Integrated Making Process
The design process of a project and its construction process are united into one continuous and intertwined making process, unfolding in a step-by-step sequence. Design ends together with the completion of the construction process. "Making" is a conception of the ...
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Master Planning as a Dynamic Process - Organic Order and Piecemeal Growth
It is simply not possible to fix today, in a Master Plan, what the environment should be like in the future, and then to steer the piecemeal process of development toward that fixed, imaginary world. Instead, planning and construction will ...
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Participation of the Users in the Design Process - Testing and Applying Pattern Languages and Layout Rules
Christopher Alexander believed that people have a right to determine and shape their environment. The genuine and wholehearted involvement of the users in the shaping of their buildings contributes positively to good architecture. It gives life, identity and personal qualities ...