Go BackHousing Plan for Guasare New Town: Photographs of drawings
01/01/1982Simulation plan of the process for laying out a neighborhood, done in the laboratory, for testing a new process, while formulating the sequence of its steps. These drawings show how the defined process, and the sequence of operations, interact with a relatively small number of initial choices, to produce a complex and organic landscape, even without any influence from external factors, such as land and topography.
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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 ...
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The Sequence of Unfolding - Generative Codes for the Design Process
In architecture, as in other things, the "right" sequence is of vital importance. It is a generative sequence of progressive differentiations, which allow space to unfold in the right order. Each differentiation acts on the product of the previous ...
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Dynamics of a Growing Neighborhood - Rules and Patterns for Laying out a Neighborhood
Neighborhoods and communities grow and change over time, and the effect of time on the process of its adaptation on real needs is huge, and leads to types and styles of order quite different from any planned arrangement, based on ...