Photograph

Arch.201: Pasadena Multi-family Housing – Photographs of student model

01/06/1987

Design Studio Course, Model

Four closeup views of adjacent multi-family apartment buildings made by different students –You-Tien Hsing, Randall Schmidt and Kleoniki Tsotropoulou, testing layout rules for the formation of positive urban space and beautiful gardens as the centers of each project. Emphasis was given on the way each project complemented and enhanced the spatial order and functionality of the other.

Photographer:

Artemis Anninou, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Slide

Characteristics:

Color

Content of

Academic Course

Design studio on the Pasadena Multi-family Housing 1987

University Program:

Master of Architecture

Course type:

Graduate Design Studio

Course number:

Arch. 201

Instructors:

Christopher Alexander, Artemis Anninou

Enrolled students:

John Raymond Byram, Catherine Drayton, Stephen Duff, You-Tien Hsing, Fanta Lawrence, Shengfong Lin, Anne Phillips, Randall Schmidt, Margaret Sheehan, Masanori Tada, Kleoniki Tsotropoulou

The Spring 1987 design studio addressed the generative sequences for the process of design and the issuance of building permits for a new class of apartment buildings in Pasadena, which would respect its tradition by making the garden the most ...

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Projects

Pasadena Zoning Ordinance for Multi-family Housing 1987 to 1988

Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.

Zoning Ordinance, Residential, Realized , Completed in 1988 and implemented

Client:

Pasadena Multi-family Housing Task Force

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Artemis Anninou, Friso Broeksma

Project cost:

$135,000

Project stages:

Pattern language for project by C.E.S. Generative rules for urban growth process Generative rules for building layout process Implementation process

The purpose of the draft ordinance was to define new guidelines which would permit high intensity development to continue in a way which is in keeping with Pasadena's heritage. Respect for the existing physical qualities of the old Pasadena residential ...