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. A sequence of sketches by Christopher Alexander and Artemis Anninou illustrate the relevant steps and give an overview of the process; in addition drawing present the finished building produced by such a process.
Photograph:
- 1st step - Mapping the site to show its good points
- 2nd step - First idea of where the gardens go, to connect the project to the neighborhood around the site
- 3rd step - Placing the parking in a way that is not obtrusive for the street
- 4th step - Placing the building volumes to help form the gardens, and to contain the right number of apartments
- 5th step - Articulation of the building volume
- 6) Basic drawings of the finished building
- 7) Floor plans showing apartment entrances
- 8) Example of a sequential development of three adjacent lots, showing how each new project enhances what the previous one did
References
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