Low Cost Houses for Mexicali: Sketches of common land
01/01/1976Ten sketches depicting the sequential steps to be followed for laying the house cluster using the patterns developed with the families: 1) Cluster Gate & Degree of Publicness –defines the common land as the heart of the project; 2) Choice of Individual Lots –to be decided by the families; 3) Lot Subdivision –depicts the lots as laid out by the families; 4, 5, & 6) Placing of Houses in Individual Lots –depict three attempts of shaping house volume and garden within each lot, with dubious results, the last being the most promising; 7 & 8) Common Land Shape by Houses –successful common land layout for another case; 9) Placing House in Individual Lots –the final house cluster layout; 10) Details of Common Land –depicting items/patterns chosen for completing the common land layout.
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The Layout Process of Buildings on the Land - Visualization at Full Scale on Site
Each act of building needs to have a positive effect on its surroundings; to complete them, preserve their structure, make them better, by creating strong centers in them and next to them. Each new building is more alive when it ...
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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 ...