New Ryde Community

A plastiline model of a new development located inside an old pear orchard, proposed for Ryde community. .

Two initial sketches by Christopher Alexander of the site plan, depicting basic organization layout ideas of community open spaces, circulation and built sections.

Three sketches based on Christopher Alexander’s initial sketch of the site plan. The first one states “copy of CA’s dwg 11/25”; the other two depict a more developed version of the initial site layout, with parking areas, access roads and ...

Four site plan sketches illustrating the possible development of the site following succesive steps of the layout design process .

Photograph of the site model, depicting a segment of the community located inside an old pear orchard.

Ornament arises as part of the design process, when a person is making and seeks to embellish this "something" while making it. It arises as a result of the latent centers in the uncompleted thing requiring still more centers, requiring ...

“A Vision of a Living World”, the third volume of “The Nature of Order” series, presents, for the first time, a full spectrum of Alexander’s and CES built and unbuilt works. The book describes hundreds of buildings, plans, neighborhoods, drawings, ...

Students worked on a real project, located outside of Sacramento. The scope was to develop and define the rules for the layout of public spaces and residential buildings, for an integrated development of affordable, middle-income residential and commercial buildings, focused ...

The design studio formed the core of the semester. Students worked together with the instructors to create a model for the future development of urban villages, using the New Ryde project in California and the Podunk project in New York, ...

Two page draft of the design process to be adopted for the physical organization of the site, followed by twenty eight sketch drawings of site plan proposals and house plan designs .