De Neufville Village

1989 to 1994

Mendham Township, NJ, U.S.A.

Neighborhood Planning, Designed , Not built

Site plan and construction process for a neighborhood of 60 houses, on a 90-acre site, to become a model of ecological development, in which woods, lake and greens are to be integrated with houses, designed and built in such a way as to avoid damaging the natural landscape.

Client:

New Jersey Conservation Foundation - Mr. Karl Kehde

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, James Maguire, others

Project cost:

$7,000

Project stages:

Generic rules for urban growth process Construction management rules and process Site plan completed

References

Scientific Research

A New Approach to Design and Construction Management

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Construction Process

A new kind of design/construction/management process, especially for large projects, is required, which will allow the building to be conceived, designed and built so that it comes to life. Below are the ground rules of such a process, already tried ...

Books

The Nature of Order - An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe. Book Two - The Process of Creating Life 2002

Authors:

Christopher Alexander

Publisher:

The Center for Environmental Structure Publishing, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

No of pages:

636 pp

“The Process of Creating Life”, the second volume of “The Nature of Order” series presents a dynamic theory of living structure. It begins with an analysis of transformations, which occur in nature, and the distinction between structure-preserving transformations, responsible for ...

Book Chapters

Chapter 19. Massive Process Difficulties, 6 / Further Difficulties of Appropriate Sequence: The New Jersey Wetlands

Publication,

Book title:

The Nature of Order – An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe.
Book Two – The Process of Creating Life

Pages:

517-518