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01/01/1972The Stanislaus County Community Mental Health Center project, under construction in 1972, was used as example for demonstrating the layout process for a public building. Ten sketches depict the sequential steps of the building layout process, using patterns. The first sketch presents the group of people involved in the design, while the remaining illustrate in sequential order the patterns used — Human Scale of Public Buildings, Entrance Location, Main Street, Circulation Realms, Social Areas at the Heart of Therapy, Family of Entrances, Convex Open Space, South Facing Open Space and Short Corridors. .
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Stanislaus County Mental Health Center
1970 to
1973
A community mental health center for outpatients and outpatient care with seven buildings, including clinics, outpatient facilities, therapeutic departments for adults, teenagers and children, staff facilities, administrative offices, gardens, courts and walkways, with total area 24,000 square feet. The key ...
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Master Planning Process for the Town of Marsta
1972
Master Plan based on the fundametal idea of a planning process which allows the planning office of Sigtuna Marsta commune together with representative users to make planning decisions for themselves. The process, organized on the basis of four elements "Pattern ...
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Master Planning Process for the Town of Marsta: Sketches - Public Building
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Master Planning Process for the Town of Marsta: Sketches - Public Building
Pattern Human Scale of Public Buildings
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Master Planning Process for the Town of Marsta: Sketches - Public Building
Pattern Entrance Location
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Development of first Patterns and Pattern Languages
The first patterns were developed in 1967 by a group of people working together with Christopher Alexander in the Center for Environmental Structure. Between 1968 and 1976 the first pattern languages were developed and tested for particular projects undertaken by ...
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Participation of the Users in the Design Process - Testing and Applying Pattern Languages and Layout Rules
Christopher Alexander believed that people have a right to determine and shape their environment. The genuine and wholehearted involvement of the users in the shaping of their buildings contributes positively to good architecture. It gives life, identity and personal qualities ...
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Master Planning Process for the Town of Marsta: Sketches - Town Growth for 1973
01/01/1972
Seven region maps with sketches illustrating the implementation of the following patterns as the guiding principles for the design process of a future town development: 1) Farm areas and water supply; 2) Agricultural Valleys; 3) Nature Edges; 4) Urban Ribbon; ...
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Master Planning Process for the Town of Marsta: Sketches - Neighborhoods
01/01/1972
Nine sketches depicting the process of organizing and laying out 350 houses in three distinct neighborhoods by involving various user groups. One user group determining the overall location of housing and its large-scale patterns, and three subgroups determining the patterns ...
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Master Planning Process for the Town of Marsta: Sketches - Apartment Building Plans
01/01/1972
Five drawings describing a rough sequence of design steps to be followed be the user-families for designing an apartment building, applying one basic pattern at each step, followed by three more drawings depicting examples of various apartment designs, that such ...
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