Frankfurt Parkstadt Housing Project: Photographs of project models

01/01/1995

Model

Photograph of a study model of one wall in a typical apartment building. It shows how the uniqueness of apartments laid out inside by the families is reflected in window arrangement and window size, visible on the outside of the building.

Photographer:

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

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

Color

Content of

Project

Frankfurt Parkstadt Housing Project 1995 to 1996

Hoechst, Frankfurt, Germany

Residential, Designed , Not built

Client:

Hoechst Pharmaceutical Company, Housing Department - Dr. Harald Kloetsch

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander

Design and construction process:

Innovations in user participation

Project stages:

Generative rules for urban growth process Generative rules for layout on the site by users Preliminary Design stage completed

The Frankfurt Parkstadt Unterliederbach project included the development of a new urban neighborhood in a landscaped setting, for Hoechst Pharmaceutical in Frankfurt West, close to the international airport and the river Main, a housing project both for Hoechst employees and ...

References

Scientific Research

The Uniqueness of People's Individual Worlds, Always Respected and Manifested

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Participation of Users

In the last two centuries "modular" design has produced identical apartments, arranged in typical apartment blocks. The same is true for mass-produced furniture. Uniqueness, which expresses personal needs and whiches, and which springs from the need to adapt and connect ...