Moshav Shorashim: Sketches of projected growth

Master Plan for a new settlement for Jewish immigrants with the social structure of a community, where land and work profits are owned collectively, but still each family has its own house. Unlike other master plans, it describes the life, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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.