Master Planning Process for the Town of Marsta – Public Building / Stanislaus County Community Mental Health Center used as an example: Photographs on design process
9 8th pattern South Facing Open Space

A community mental health center for outpatients and outpatient care with seven buildings, including clinics, outpatient facilities, therapeutic departments for adults, teenagers and children, staff facilities, administrative offices, gardens, courts and walkways, with total area 24,000 square feet. The key ...

Master Plan based on the fundametal idea of a planning process which allows the planning office of Sigtuna Marsta commune together with representative users to make planning decisions for themselves. The process, organized on the basis of four elements "Pattern ...

The first patterns were developed in 1967 by a group of people working together with Christopher Alexander in the Center for Environmental Structure. Between 1968 and 1976 the first pattern languages were developed and tested for particular projects undertaken by ...

Christopher Alexander believed that people have a right to determine and shape their environment. The genuine and wholehearted involvement of the users in the shaping of their buildings contributes positively to good architecture. It gives life, identity and personal qualities ...

Fourteen large presentation boards illustrating the proposed planning process based on five guiding principles; the first six boards give an overview of them and the planning process in general, providing clarifications on ‘Pattern Language’, ‘Diagnosis’, ‘Projects’, ‘User Groups’ and ‘Procedure’, ...

The Stanislaus County Community Mental Health Center project, under construction in 1972, was used as example for demonstrating the layout process for a public building on the land. Ten sketches illustrate in sequential order the basic patterns used in the ...

Images of fourteen boards illustrating the presentation of a new proposed planning process which would allow the people of Marsta-Sigtuna to make all planning decisions for themselves. The boards depict the fundamental design tools used in the process and ...

Nine images of sketches depicting in sequential order the process of organizing and laying out 350 houses in three distinct neighborhoods by using patterns with the involvement of user groups. One user group determining the overall location of housing and ...

Nine images of sketches on a regional map, each one illustrating the implementation of a pattern as one of the guiding principles for the design process of a future town development. The patterns refer primarily to large scale design issues.