Go BackArch.203 & Arch.291: The San Francisco Waterfront Graduate Studio – Photographs of student model
01/09/1979Four photos of the studio project model, close-ups of the first part of the development, including the gateway, the beginning of the main street, a hotal and public garden, a small square and several buildings.
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Design III: The San Francisco Waterfront Project
1979
The Spring 1979 design studio course was an experimental project on the San Francisco Waterfront. The experiment consisted of a simulated process of urban growth, carried out by about twenty people. The simulation included 90 projects, to be developed on ...
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Theory III: On Urban Design
1979
The Spring 1979 theory studio course was complementary to the design studio on the San Francisco Waterfront experimental project. Its focus was on the development, elaboration and testing of a series of theoretical assumptions on the process of urban growth, ...
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The Process of Urban Design and the Formation of Larger Urban Wholes
Theoretical basis and key assumptions for the process of urban growth, tested initially in the San Francisco Waterfront experimental project in 1979, in which the formation of larger urban wholes was highlighted as an overriding rule. This process was further ...
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The Unfolding of Public Space and Gardens as Positive Space
Outdoor space is positive when it is shaped just as a room is shaped. It has a contained character, it is bounded by walls, fences, natural vegetation, enclosure of some kind. It looks into other positive spaces, some larger, some ...