Drawing

Master Plan for the University of Oregon: Preliminary Design Drawings – Piecemeal Growth of the School of Education

01/01/1971

Architectural Design, Preliminary Design, Site Plan, Simulation Plan

Seven drawings through which the concept of “piecemeal growth” is being illustrated in comparison to the “large lump development” approach: The first sketch depicts the existing conditions regarding the School of Education and the surrounding area. The following three sketches illustrate three steps of a large lump development approach and how this finally wipes out the existing school. the last three sketches illustrate the piecemeal steps of development taken and which can support, maintain and repair the places which are working well, and which, over the years have acquired life supporting qualities.

Designers:

Christopher Alexander, Murray Silverstein, Shlomo Angel, Sara Ishikawa, Denny Abrams, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Photocopy

Size:

8 1/2"x11"

Content of

Project

Master Plan for the University of Oregon 1969 to 1971

Eugene, OR, U.S.A.

Master Planning, Educational, Realized , Completed in 1971 and impletented

Client:

University of Oregon - Mr. Robert S. Harris, Dean of the School of Architecture and Chairman of the user planning committee

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Murray Silverstein, Shlomo Angel, Sara Ishikawa, Denny Abrams

Project stages:

Pattern language for the project by clients and C.E.S. Layout on the site by clients and C.E.S. Generic rules for urban growth process Diagnosis and repair process

A complete user-based master plan for the University of Oregon, in Eugene, introducing a new planning theory, which replaced the predominant theory of master plans. It gave primacy to the use of pattern languages and user design, in the continuous ...

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References

Scientific Research

Master Planning as a Dynamic Process - Organic Order and Piecemeal Growth

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Step by Step Process

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 ...

Published Books

The Oregon Experiment 01/01/1975

Publication, Original Book

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Murray Silverstein, Shlomo Angel, Sara Ishikawa, Denny Abrams

Publisher:

Oxford University Press, New York, NY, U.S.A.

The third volume of “The Center for Environmental Structure Series” on architecture published by Oxford University Press, “The Oregon Experiment” is the first of the series to describe in full detail how the theory presented in “A Pattern Language” and ...