Go BackPasadena Zoning Ordinance for Multi-Family Housing – Generative Sequence for Apartment Buildings: Photographs of sketches
01/01/1987Eleven major steps define the generative sequence which allows the designer to produce a design for a particular site by an unfolding process that meet the necessary conditions for a good apartment building. Five sketches by Christopher Alexander and Artemis Anninou illustrate the relevant steps and give an overview of the process; in addition three drawing present a finished building produced by such a process .
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Pasadena Zoning Ordinance for Multi-Family Housing - Generative Sequence for Apartment Buildings: Photographs of sketches
Step 1-Mapping the site to show its good points
01/01/1987
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Pasadena Zoning Ordinance for Multi-Family Housing - Generative Sequence for Apartment Buildings: Photographs of sketches
Step 2-First idea of where the gardens go, to connect the project to the neighborhood around the site
01/01/1987
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Pasadena Zoning Ordinance for Multi-Family Housing - Generative Sequence for Apartment Buildings: Photographs of sketches
Sequence of three developments on adjacent lots, showing how each new project emhances what the previous one did
01/01/1987
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The Sequence of Unfolding - Generative Codes for the Design Process
In architecture, as in other things, the "right" sequence is of vital importance. It is a generative sequence of progressive differentiations, which allow space to unfold in the right order. Each differentiation acts on the product of the previous ...
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The Uniqueness of People's Individual Worlds, Always Respected and Manifested
In the last two centuries "modular" design has produced identical apartments, arranged in typical apartment blocks. The same is true for mass-produced furniture. Uniqueness, which expresses personal needs and whiches, and which springs from the need to adapt and connect ...
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Project Specific Pattern Languages - Specificity and Generality of Pattern Languages
A shared pattern language in a project acts as the generic system which gives the power to the smaller local acts to form a whole. Within the process of making a project, every individual act of building differentiates space. However, ...