Go BackNeighborhood of Seventy Low-Cost Houses: Photographs of sketches
01/05/1986Nine sketches by Christopher Alexander and Artemis Anninou showing the sequential steps of the house volume layout and design process, initially simulated and tested on paper and models. A more advanced version of them was implemented on the actual site with the participation of the families. The simulations took into account the different site conditions.
Photograph:
- 1) Locate main volume
- 2) Locate the veranda, adjacent to the main volume
- 3) Locate the secondary volume
- 4) Shape the roofs - 1st example
- 5) Shape the roofs - 2nd example
- 6) Shape the roofs - 3rd example
- 7) House volume relation to land configuration - 1st set of cross section diagrams
- 8) House volume relation to land configuration - 2nd set of cross section diagrams
References
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The Sequence of Unfolding - Generative Codes for the Design Process
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