Correspondence

Housing Plan for Guasare New Town: Letter addressed to Rosario, sent via Kevin Lynch traveling to Maracaibo; describes the progress on the work being accomplished, and includes an 8-page attachment on the “Form and Organization of a Typical Guasare Neighborhood”, with references on lot subdivision, house growth, house layout the form of the street

01/12/1982

Design Matters, Memorandum

Sender:

Christopher Alexander, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Recipient:

Rosario Giusti de Perez, Corpozulia, the Public Development Corporation of the State of Zulia, Maracaibo, Venezuela

Medium:

Letter

Content of

Project

Housing Plan for Guasare New Town 1981 to 1983

Guasare, Maracaibo, Venezuela

Neighborhood Planning, Designed , Completed in May-1983

Client:

"Corpozulia", the Public Development Corporation of the State of Zulia - represented by Mrs. Rosario Giusti de Perez, Director of the New Town Development Plan

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Artemis Anninou, Martine Weissmann, Hansjoachim Neis

Project stages:

Generative rules for urban growth process Generative rules for the neighborhood layout process Generative rules for house layout process by users Implementation process

The project focused on the housing component of the master plan for the new town of Guasare, in the state of Maracaibo, Venezuela, planned to accomodate several thousand workers. The design of its neighborhoods, each one for about 250 families, ...

References

Scientific Research

Dynamics of a Growing Neighborhood - Rules and Patterns for Laying out a Neighborhood

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Step by Step Process

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 ...

Correspondence

Housing Plan for Guasare New Town: Cover letter with 3-page comments regarding changes proposed by the C.E.S. on: 1. The large scale physical layout of Guasare; 2. The process of laying out neighborhoods and their internal layouts; 3. The lots, the houses and their adaptation to the topography of the site 21/02/1983

Project, Design Matters, Outstanding Issues

Sender:

Gabriel Ferres, Corpozulia, the Public Development Corporation of the State of Zulia, Maracaibo, Venezuela

Recipient:

Artemis Anninou, Center for Environmental Structure , Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Letter

Language:

English, Spanish

Reports

Neighborhood Plans for Guasare New Town: The Construction of New Neighborhoods for Guasare New Town, Venezuela 01/05/1983

Project, Project Report

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Artemis Anninou, Martine Weissmann, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

197-page report on the design process and physical layout for the Guasare neighborhoods, organized in five chapters, as follows: Chapter 1. The layout of the individual neighborhood; Chapter 2. The layout of the individual house; Chapter 3. Financing and administration; ...

Records

Neighborhood Plans for Guasare New Town: Comments on the document "The Form and Organization of a Typical Guasare Neighborhood", sent by C.E.S. on Dec. 1982, as attachment to a letter to Rosario Giusti de Perez 01/01/1983

Project, Design Matters, Layout Process

Thirteen pages with comments on the house designs and their adaptability to the topography, the climate, the forming streets and their length, the possibility of a piecemeal growth, the urban character of the streets, the forming public spaces, and the ...