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Canary Island Tourist Resort
1973Development 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 densities and transportation. .
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Canary Island: Preliminary description of twelve basic patterns for creating real and active communities all year round; to be discussed on meeting of 13-Oct-1973
07/10/1973
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Canary Island: Describes the work completed for phase one of contract; 1. The 45 Patterns; 2. The Plan, with nine categories of areas; 3. Phasing, with three examples; 4. The Ordinances
23/12/1973
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Tourist Resort in the Canary Islands: Sketches
01/01/1973
Drawing of one segment of the general resort layout illustrating the courtyard layout pattern .
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Tourist Resort in the Canary Islands: Preliminary Design Drawings
01/12/1973
Four drawings of the courtyard layout plan, simulating different stages of a resort area growth, prepared for Fernando Higueras, Architect.
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Tourist Resort in the Canary Islands: Preliminary Design Drawings
01/12/1973
Two large scale drawings simulating the development of two adjacent resort areas over a period of time, using the courtyard pattern as the basis of the layout.
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Canary Island: A batch of patterns which define the preservation of the land, the sites for building, relative densities, and transportation
01/01/1973
26-page project proposal with description of relevant patterns with sketches.
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Canary Island: Los Patterns - Primerante, un conjunto de modelos que definiran la conservacion de la terra, lops sitios para Construccion, las densidades relative's, y los medios de transporte
01/01/1973
Spanish version of the English language report; 26-page project proposal with description of relevant patterns with sketches.
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Canary Island: Appendix - Problem Statements for Forty Five Patterns
01/01/1973
Short version of the problem statements which stand behind the patterns proposed for the Canary Island Project.
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Tourist Resort in the Canary Islands: Photographs of drawing
01/01/1973
Sketch of the courtyard house layout, which was used as the basic pattern for the tourist resort development.
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Tourist Resort in the Canary Islands: Photographs of sketches
01/01/1973
Perspective sketch of Christopher Alexander conveying the feeling of the resort development from far away.
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Tourist Resort in the Canary Islands: Photographs of drawings
01/12/1973
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.
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References
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Development of first Patterns and Pattern Languages
The first patterns were developed in 1967 by a group of people working together with Christopher Alexander in the Center for Environmental Structure. Between 1968 and 1976 the first pattern languages were developed and tested for particular projects undertaken by ...
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Master Planning as a Dynamic Process - Organic Order and Piecemeal Growth
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 ...
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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, ...