Neighborhood Plans for Guasare New Town: Housing Production in Guasare

25/09/1982

Design Matters, Memorandum

14-page document with tentative conclusions regarding the housing production in the new town of Guasare, discussed by the design group of ISA, and tentatively approved. Includes points crucial to the organization of the project, describing the percentages of family-owned (“user-intimate”) and company-owned (“user-distant”) housing. Proposals for the financing of the families of different economic capacities, and of their construction involvement, are also described. .

Authors:

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

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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

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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

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