Master Plan for the Village of Bavra

1962 to 1963

Bavra, near Mehmedabad, Gujarat, India

Master Planning, Designed , Completed in 1963

An agricultural village of six hundred people, which is to be reorganized to make it fit present and future conditions developing in rural India, is an example for testing a theory of analysis of functions and sythesis of spatial entities. It includes a detailed decomposition of the functions of the village and a recomposition of the same as diagrams of spatial configurations. This work was produced after seven months of field study in the village of Brava, near Mehemedabad, Gujarat.

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander

Sponsor:

Government of Gujarat, Village Development Planning

Project stages:

Analysis of requirements by hierarchical decomposition Diagrams

Contents

Reports

Master Plan for Village of Bavra: Village for Gujarat, India 01/01/1962

Project Report

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.

81-page report organized in three parts: 1st part describes how the project initiated and the work produced after seven months of field study in the village of Brava, near Mehemedabad, Gujarat; 2nd part includes the 32 pages of a reprinted ...

References

Scientific Research

Decomposition Process and the Diagrams

Areas of focus:

Structure of Space

Guiding idea:

Early Mathematical Approach

The prevailing idea being the search for goodness of fit between form and its context, Alexander postulated that in today's selfconscious design process, in order to attain a good design there must be an underlying correspondence between the structure of ...

Books

Notes on the Synthesis of Form 1964

Authors:

Christopher Alexander

Publisher:

Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.

No of pages:

216 pp

“These notes are about the process of design: the process of inventing things which display new physical order, organization, form, in response to function.” This book, opening with these words, presents an entirely new theory of the process of design. In ...

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