Master 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. The first sketch presents a meeting of the user group with the designers, while the second the Music School site plan with its surroundings, followed by seven sketches illustrating the patterns “University Streets”, “Activity Nucleus”, “Circulation Realms”, “Pedestrian Paths”, “Department Hearth”, “Student Faculty Mix” in sequential order. The last two images depict the drawing “Final proposal for repairing the existing Music School” and the Music School floor plan with its surrounding space and the relevant proposals.
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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 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
01/01/1972
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Master 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
01/01/1972
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Master 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
01/01/1972
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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
Fourteen images depicting the presentation boards which include the proposed planning process which allows the people of Marsta-Sigtuna to make all planning decisions for themselves. Organized on the basis of the 4 elements of the process: The Pattern Language, Diagnosis, ...
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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 the process of organizing and laying out 350 houses in three distinct neighborhoods, involving various user groups. One user group determining the overall location of housing and its large-scale patterns, and three subgroups determining the ...
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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 region maps depicting the implementation of the following patterns as the guiding principles for the design process of a future town development: 1) Farm areas and water supply; 2) Agricultural Valleys; 3) Nature Edges; 4) Urban Ribbon; ...