Master Planning Process for the Town of Marsta: A New Kind of Planning Process
01/01/197231-page document explaining how families in Marsta-Sigtuna will be able to design their own house by using patterns, participate in the process and contribute their good ideas to the design. The process is explained by using an example of a house designed by a California layman in two days. The process is further expanded to include the design of an apartment and an apartment building, along the same principles. Included are four pages, explaining ten of the eleven patterns referring to the “Town Growth for 1973” plan.
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Development of first Patterns and Pattern Languages
The first patterns were developed in 1967 by a group of people working together with Christopher Alexander in the Center for Environmental Structure. Between 1968 and 1976 the first pattern languages were developed and tested for particular projects undertaken by ...
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Dynamics of a Growing Neighborhood - Rules and Patterns for Laying out a Neighborhood
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 ...
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Master Planning Process for the Town of Marsta: Sketches - Apartment Building Plans
01/01/1972
Five drawings describing a rough sequence of design steps to be followed be the user-families for designing an apartment building, applying one basic pattern at each step, followed by three more drawings depicting examples of various apartment designs, that such ...
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Master Planning Process for the Town of Marsta: Sketches - One Individual House
01/01/1972
Four pages with seven sketches related to the individual house layout process: The first a sketch of a family staking-out their house; then four bubble diagrams depicting patterns used for the house layout and space relationships; finally a sketch of ...