The Peru Project – Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Sketches

Master plan for a community of 1500 houses, submitted as one out of twelve other competition entries for the United Nations sponsored international housing competition PREVI (Proyecto Experimental de Vivienda). The Center for Environmental Structure was chosen as the ...

Pattern languages consist of a multitude of patterns which reflect and define a way of life, people's inner feelings and aspirations, they relate to culture, to climate and to the actual place, and they are rooted in observation. During the pattern ...

A shared pattern language in a project acts as the generic system which gives the power to the smaller local acts to form a whole. Within the process of making a project, every individual act of building differentiates space. However, ...

The second of Alexander’s early works published by the Center for Environmental Structure, lays out the process of creating the pattern language for a group of houses designed for an experimental housing competition in Lima, Peru in 1969. It ...

Sketches drawn to illustrate nine of the patterns proposed for the design of the houses, namely: 1) Direct Visible Parking; 2) Cell Gateway; 3) Flowers on the Street; 4) Front Door Recess; 5) Translucent Opening Patio Roof; 6) Staircase is ...