Photograph

Tourist Resort in the Canary Islands: Photographs of drawing

01/01/1973

Drawing

Sketch simulating the development of part of a resort area on the basis of the courtyard layout.

Photographer:

Christopher Alexander/C.E.S., Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Print, Negative

Characteristics:

8"x10", 9"x12", B&W

Content of

Project

Canary Island Tourist Resort 1973

Fuerta Ventura, Canary Islands, Spain

Commercial, Designed , Completed in 1973

Client:

Development Consortium, Rueger and Associates, Stuttgart, Germany

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Halim Abdelhalim, Lisa Heschong

Project stages:

Pattern language for the project by C.E.S. Generic rules for urban growth process Preliminary design

Development plan for a tourist resort for 80,000 people. Formulation of a project specifc pattern language for creating real and active communities all year round; it included 45 patterns which defined the preservation of land, the sites for building, relative ...

References

Scientific Research

Drawings

Tourist Resort in the Canary Islands: Preliminary Design Drawings 01/12/1973

Architectural Design, Project, Preliminary Design, Site Plan, Simulation Plan

Designers:

Christopher Alexander, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Halim Abdelhalim, Lisa Heschong, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Original on Paper

Size:

12"x17"

Scale:

1:20000

Sketch simulating the development of part of a resort area on the basis of the courtyard layout pattern.