Go BackHousing Plan for Guasare New Town: Photographs of drawings
3 3) Detailed plan of a part of the neighborhood, also with slightly different area of focus
Simulation plan of the detailed internal structure of a neighborhood area, developed as per the layout rules for house volumes, gardens and streets.
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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 ...
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Housing Plan for Guasare New Town: Photographs of project model
4 4) Third close-up view of the model
01/01/1982
Four photographs of a small scale simulation model out of balsa wood, for testing the main rules for the layout of house volumes, gardens and garden walls, and the parallel formation of roads. The positive space of gardens is shown ...
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Housing Plan for Guasare New Town: Photographs of sketches simulating the layout proces
9 9th Step - Lot lines are laid in, after the courtyards, gardens and house volumes have been formed as coherent centers
01/01/1982
Sequence of ten sketches by Christopher Alexander and Artemis Anninou simulating the unfolding of the layout process of a neighborhood. It is a dynamic process driven by the creation of centers in the form of gardens, streets and buildings. Lot ...