Master Planning Process for the Town of Marsta: Sketches – Repair of an existing building and its surroundings
01/01/1972The Music School of the University of Oregon was used as an example for demonstrating the process of repair of an exisitng building. Ten sketches illustrate the sequential steps followed for the diagnosis of existing problems and the solutions proposed by the user group applying relevant patterns. The first sketch presents a meeting of the user group with the designers, while the second the Music School site plan with its surroundings. The following seven sketches illustrate in sequential order the patterns used –University Streets, Activity Nuclei, Circulation Realms, Pedestrian Paths, Department Hearth and Student Faculty Mix. The last sketch is the final proposal for repairing the existing Music School.
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Master Plan for the University of Oregon
1969 to
1971
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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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 - Repair of an existing building and its surroundings
01/01/1972
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Master Planning Process for the Town of Marsta: Sketches - Repair of an existing building and its surroundings
Music school existing site plan
01/01/1972
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Master Planning Process for the Town of Marsta: Sketches - Repair of an existing building and its surroundings
Music school - Pattern University Street
01/01/1972
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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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Master Planning as a Dynamic Process - Organic Order and Piecemeal Growth
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 ...
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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 ...