Photograph

Housing Plan for Guasare New Town: Photographs of drawings

01/01/1982

Drawing

Elevation of a typical house brightly painted with the traditional and wonderful scheme of colors in Zulia; two more elevations of houses with their gardens as they face streets.

Photographer:

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

Source:

Digital, PMT

Characteristics:

6"x8", B&W

Content of

Project

Housing Plan for Guasare New Town 1981 to 1983

Guasare, Maracaibo, Venezuela

Neighborhood Planning, Designed , Completed in May-1983

Client:

"Corpozulia", the Public Development Corporation of the State of Zulia - represented by Mrs. Rosario Giusti de Perez, Director of the New Town Development Plan

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Artemis Anninou, Martine Weissmann, Hansjoachim Neis

Project stages:

Generative rules for urban growth process Generative rules for the neighborhood layout process Generative rules for house layout process by users Implementation process

The project focused on the housing component of the master plan for the new town of Guasare, in the state of Maracaibo, Venezuela, planned to accomodate several thousand workers. The design of its neighborhoods, each one for about 250 families, ...

Contents

Photographs

References

Scientific Research

Drawings

Housing Plan for Guasare New Town: Preliminary Design Drawings - Neighborhood Street Elevations 01/01/1982

Architectural Design, Project, Preliminary Design, Elevation

Designers:

Christopher Alexander, Artemis Anninou, Martine Weissmann, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Original on Tracing Paper

Size:

11"x41"

Scale:

1:200

Two elevations of the neighborhood streets, conveying their character .