Model & Mock-up

User Designed Apartment Building: Building complex model

01/01/1974

Model

Presentation cardboard model of 27 apartment buildings as they were designed by the participating families.

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA

Medium:

Array

Size:

26"x40"

Scale:

3/32"=1'

Content of

Project

User Designed Apartment Building 1974 to 1975

St.Quentin-en-Yvelines, Paris , France

Residential, Designed , Not built

Client:

French Ministry of Housing - Francois Choay

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Walter V. Wendler

Project stages:

Preliminary Design Construction Schedule

Design and construction of prototype apartment complex outside Paris. The project was initiated by Francoise Choay, the Minister of Housing in France, in November 1973, when she invited the Center for Environmental Structure to join her analysis of poor quality, ...

References

Photographs

User Designed Apartment Building: Photographs of project model 01/01/1974

Project, Model

Photographer:

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

Source:

Print, Negative

Characteristics:

2 5/8"x3 1/4", 4 3/8"x4 3/4", 8"x8 5/8", 3 1/2"x4 1/4", Color, B&W

The apartment building large scale colored model, made of heavy cardboard and thick paint, depicting an extensive variety of apartments for different families.