Project

Proposal for a project in Papua New Guinea

1977

Papua - New Guinea

, Proposal

Project stages:

The project did not proceed beyond the initial stage of negotiations

Contents

Reports

Rules for Generating Houses in Papua New Guinea 01/05/1982

Project Report

Authors:

David Week, Community-Based Building Program Ltd., Wewak, Papua New Guinea

330-page report on the hypothesis that “Every building is the product of a set of rules”, with the following Contents: Introduction; I. Rules of layout and construction; II. Rules of project operation; III. Rules of organizational structure; Appendices.

Records

Papua New Guinea: Pattern Language - Coastal Urban Settlement (Neighborhood) 01/01/1977

Patterns for Project, List of Patterns

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, David Week, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

A list of patterns with detailed description of the “Family Compound” pattern .

References

Records

Presentation of the Community-Based Building, Ltd. Company in Papua New Guinea 01/01/1985

C.E.S. Office, C.E.S. Associates, Company Profile

Authors:

David Week, Community-Based Building Program Ltd., Wewak, Papua New Guinea

93-page document on the history, projects and focus of the company in papua New Guinea; acknowledges Christopher Alexander as initiator of the idea of its creation. Intended to be submitted as an article for the journal “New Architecture”.