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Tourist Resort in the Canary Islands: Photographs of drawings

01/12/1973

Drawing

Three examples regarding different rates of growth in the sequence of development of the resort over a period of 20 years; schematic plans depicting incremental growth in four periods, 5-year-long each.

Photographer:

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

Source:

PMT

Characteristics:

8 1/2"x11", 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 ...

Contents

Photographs

References

Scientific Research

Master Planning as a Dynamic Process - Organic Order and Piecemeal Growth

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Step by Step Process

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 ...

Photographs

Tourist Resort in the Canary Islands: Photographs of drawings 01/12/1973

Project, Drawing

Photographer:

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

Source:

PMT

Characteristics:

8 1/2"x11", B&W

Large scale area plan including site plans of three different resort areas, which depict their simulated touristic development after twenty years; land uses indicated.