Tourist Resort in the Canary Islands: Preliminary Design Drawings

01/12/1973

Architectural Design, Preliminary Design, Site Plan, Simulation Plan

Two large scale drawings simulating the development of two adjacent resort areas over a period of time, using the courtyard pattern as the basis of the layout.

Designers:

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

Medium:

Original Print on Vellum

Size:

27 3/8"x37 1/2"

Scale:

1:20000

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 ...

Contents

Drawings

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 ...

Photographs

Tourist Resort in the Canary Islands: Photographs of drawing 01/01/1973

Project, Drawing

Photographer:

Christopher Alexander/C.E.S., Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Print

Characteristics:

9"x12", B&W

Large scale drawing simulating the development of an extended resort area over a period of time, using the courtyard house pattern as the basis of the layout.