Record

Neighborhood Plans for Guasare New Town: Comments on the document “The Form and Organization of a Typical Guasare Neighborhood”, sent by C.E.S. on Dec. 1982, as attachment to a letter to Rosario Giusti de Perez

01/01/1983

Design Matters, Layout Process

Thirteen pages with comments on the house designs and their adaptability to the topography, the climate, the forming streets and their length, the possibility of a piecemeal growth, the urban character of the streets, the forming public spaces, and the building orientation according to an indicative unique factor; accompanied by one page in English outlining the main points addressed.

Content of

Project

Housing Plan for Guasare New Town 1981 to 1983

Guasare, Maracaibo, Venezuela

Neighborhood Planning, Designed , Completed in May-1983

Client:

"Corpozulia", the Public Development Corporation of the State of Zulia - represented by Mrs. Rosario Giusti de Perez, Director of the New Town Development Plan

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Artemis Anninou, Martine Weissmann, Hansjoachim Neis

Project stages:

Generative rules for urban growth process Generative rules for the neighborhood layout process Generative rules for house layout process by users Implementation process

The project focused on the housing component of the master plan for the new town of Guasare, in the state of Maracaibo, Venezuela, planned to accomodate several thousand workers. The design of its neighborhoods, each one for about 250 families, ...

References

Scientific Research

Dynamics of a Growing Neighborhood - Rules and Patterns for Laying out a Neighborhood

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Step by Step Process

Neighborhoods and communities grow and change over time, and the effect of time on the process of its adaptation on real needs is huge, and leads to types and styles of order quite different from any planned arrangement, based on ...

Correspondence

Reports

Neighborhood Plans for Guasare New Town: The Construction of New Neighborhoods for Guasare New Town, Venezuela 01/05/1983

Project, Project Report

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Artemis Anninou, Martine Weissmann, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

197-page report on the design process and physical layout for the Guasare neighborhoods, organized in five chapters, as follows: Chapter 1. The layout of the individual neighborhood; Chapter 2. The layout of the individual house; Chapter 3. Financing and administration; ...