Correspondence

Redevelopment of Cottbus City: Note setting the points of review by Christopher Alexander regarding the layout and information included on the presentation boards; seven pages of focused items for review are forwarded

08/10/1999

Design Matters

Sender:

Dave, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Recipient:

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

Medium:

Note

Content of

Project 1 Items

Redevelopment of Cottbus City 1996 to 1997

Cottbus, Germany

Development Plan, Designed, Not built

Client:

Baudezernat for Bauordnung und Bauwesen

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Hansjoachim Neis, John Hewitt

Project cost:

Expected design fee: 300.000 DM

Project stages:

Concept Design

Project in the old city of Cottbus, which intended to include two places, the Altmarkt and the Spremberger Strasse –the old market and a street. The proposal was to develop a pattern language of the project and to adopt a ...

References

Visual & Audio Materials 1 Items

Redevelopment of Cottbus City: Die Spremberger Strasse - Grudidee 01/10/1996

Project, Visual, Presentation Board

Created by:

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

Five versions of a board titled “The Spremberger Street – Basic Idea”, which depict on a rough plan the proposed interventions on the street; the connection between spaces and gates being the primary idea. Images, sketches and texts provide the ...