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Moshav Shorashim: Sketches of projected growth
5 5) Final settlement layout scheme, with its major centers
Sequence of five sketches by Christopher Alexander simulating the growth of the settlement over a 19-year period with increments of construction, which enhance centers existing latently on the site.
Drawing:
- 1) The site existing conditions
- 2) The first increment of construction - Access road and a courtyard
- 3) 2nd increment of construction - Two clusters of houses with courtyards and paths
- 4) 3rd increment of construction - more clusters completed with indication of new ones
- 5) Final settlement layout scheme, with its major centers
References
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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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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 ...
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Moshav Shorashim: Photographs of sketches
01/01/1979
Sketch by Christopher Alexander on which the settlement layout scheme is simulated with its major centers, when reached its completion. A blow up of a typical primary node is also sketched.
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Moshav Shorashim: Photographs of sketches
01/01/1979
Sketch by Christopher Alexander on which an ascending chain of places on the project site ground are marked, as the latent centers of the site to be further enhanced with the design and construction of the settlement.
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Moshav Shorashim: Photographs of sketches with project growth
4 4) Final settlement layout scheme, with its major centers
01/01/1979
Photographs of a sequence of four sketches by Christopher Alexander simulating the growth of the settlement over a 19-year period with increments of construction, which enhance centers existing latently on the site.