Master Planning Process for the Town of Marsta – Public Building / Stanislaus County Community Mental Health Center used as an example: Photographs on design process

Ten images of sketches depicting the steps of the layout process for a public building, using patterns; the Stanislaus County Community Mental Health Center project, under construction in 1972, was used as example. The first sketch presents the group of people involved in the design, while the remaining illustrate in sequential order the patterns “Human Scale of Public Buildings”, “Entrance Location”, “Main Street”, “Circulation Realms”, “Social Areas at the Heart of Therapy”, “Family of Entrances”, “Convex Open Space”, “South Facing Open Space” and “Short Corridors”. Two more images of drawings are presented, the original floor plan and the axonometric of the volumetric configuration of the project.