Correspondence

Moshav Shorashim: Addressing the people of the Moshav with reference to a proposed design schedule. Notification to the people that any changes they would want made to the designs should be done on the attached, and sent back to be incorporated. Refers to attached sets of individual house and public building drawings and includes a time plan for corrections and preparing the final construction drawings for approval.

18/05/1982

Design Matters, Notification

Sender:

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

Recipient:

People of Moshav, Garin Sof Ma'arav, Jerusalem, Israel

Medium:

Letter

Content of

Project

Moshav Shorashim New Settlement - Master Plan, Clusters of Houses and Public Buildings 1977 to 1983

Galilee, Israel

Master Planning, Residential, Realized , Construction completed in Jul-1983

Client:

The Jewish Agency of Israel; the Ministry of Housing; the Garin Sof Ma'arav

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Amos Gitai, Howard Davis, Artemis Anninou, Nili Portugali

Contractor:

Jewish Agency general contractor and subcontractors

Project cost:

$3,000,000

Project stages:

Layout on the site by clients and C.E.S. Generic rules for urban growth process Design Development drawings done after layout

Master Plan for a new settlement for Jewish immigrants with the social structure of a community, where land and work profits are owned collectively, but still each family has its own house. Unlike other master plans, it describes the life, the ...

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