Go BackMaster Planning Process for the Town of Marsta – Repair of an Existing Area / Music School in the University of Oregon used as an example: Photographs on design process
01/01/1972Eleven images of sketches depicting the steps followed for the diagnosis of existing problems and the solutions proposed by the user group applying relevant patterns. The Master Plan for the University of Oregon, and specifically the Music School project, had been used as example.
Photograph:
- Music school user group meeting with the architects
- Music school existing site plan
- 1st pattern for Music school 'University Street'
- 2nd pattern for Music school 'Activity Nuclei'
- 3rd pattern for Music school 'Activity Nucleus'
- 4th pattern for Music school 'Circulation Realms'
- 5th pattern for Music school 'Pedestrian Path'
- 6th pattern for Music school 'Department Hearth'
- 7th pattern for Music school 'Student Faculty Mix'
- Final proposal for repairing the existing Music School
- Music School floor plan with its surrounding space, after the application of patterns
Content of
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Master Plan for the University of Oregon
1969 to
1971
A complete user-based master plan for the University of Oregon, in Eugene, introducing a new planning theory, which replaced the predominant theory of master plans. It gave primacy to the use of pattern languages and user design, in the continuous ...
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Master Planning Process for the Town of Marsta
1972
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 ...
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Master Plan for the University of Oregon
1967 to
1973
A complete user-based master plan for the University of Oregon, in Eugene, introducing a new planning theory, which replaced the predominant theory of master plans. It gave primacy to the use of pattern languages and user design, in the continuous ...
References
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Development of first Patterns and Pattern Languages
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 ...
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Master Planning as a Dynamic Process - Organic Order and Piecemeal Growth
It is simply not possible to fix today, in a Master Plan, what the environment should be like in the future, and then to steer the piecemeal process of development toward that fixed, imaginary world. Instead, planning and construction will ...
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Master Planning Process for the Town of Marsta: Photographs of presentation boards
01/01/1972
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 ...
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Master Planning Process for the Town of Marsta - Neighborhoods: Photographs on design process
01/01/1972
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 ...
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Master Planning Process for the Town of Marsta - Town Growth for 1973: Photographs on design process
01/01/1972
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.
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