Drawing

Tourist Resort in the Canary Islands: Preliminary Design Drawings

01/12/1973

Architectural Design, Preliminary Design, Site Plan, Simulation Plan

Four drawings of the courtyard layout plan, simulating different stages of a resort area growth, prepared for Fernando Higueras, Architect.

Designers:

Christopher Alexander, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Halim Abdelhalim, Lisa Heschong, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Original on Tracing Paper

Size:

8 1/2"x11"

Content of

Project

Canary Island Tourist Resort 1973

Fuerta Ventura, Canary Islands, Spain

Commercial, Designed , Completed in 1973

Client:

Development Consortium, Rueger and Associates, Stuttgart, Germany

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Halim Abdelhalim, Lisa Heschong

Project stages:

Pattern language for the project by C.E.S. Generic rules for urban growth process Preliminary design

Development plan for a tourist resort for 80,000 people. Formulation of a project specifc pattern language for creating real and active communities all year round; it included 45 patterns which defined the preservation of land, the sites for building, relative ...

References

Scientific Research

Master Planning as a Dynamic Process - Organic Order and Piecemeal Growth

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Step by Step Process

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 ...

Drawings

Tourist Resort in the Canary Islands: Preliminary Design Drawings 01/12/1973

Architectural Design, Project, Preliminary Design, Site Plan, Simulation Plan

Designers:

Christopher Alexander, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Halim Abdelhalim, Lisa Heschong, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Original on Paper

Size:

12"x17"

Scale:

1:20000

Sketch simulating the development of part of a resort area on the basis of the courtyard layout pattern.