The New Apartment House: La politique de modeles et son retentissement l’innovation dans le longement social – Model policy and its impact on innovation in social housing

01/05/1975

Reference Document

197-page report presenting an evaluation of the model policy approach as solution to the social housing needs. Its hypotheses, methods and limitations are addressed here. It is organized in four chapters, the fourth being the counter-proposal specifically elaborated by Christopher Alexander to fill in some gaps and respond to some of the criticisms made in the first two chapters. Chapter I: Analysis and criticism of the official concepts regarding models; Chapter II: Analysis of approved model projects; Chapter III: The model procedure in the history of model housing and Chapter IV: Proposal of a new type of collective housing.

Authors:

F. Choay, J. Riguet - Directors and C. Andrian, P. Celeste, I. Glovinsky, P. Gresset, M. Gros, L. Valentino - Researchers, A.R.D.U. Universite de Paris VIII, Paris, France
Christopher Alexander, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Language:

French

Content of

Project

User Designed Apartment Building 1974 to 1975

St.Quentin-en-Yvelines, Paris , France

Residential, Designed , Not built

Client:

French Ministry of Housing - Francois Choay

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Walter V. Wendler

Project stages:

Preliminary Design Construction Schedule

Design and construction of prototype apartment complex outside Paris. The project was initiated by Francoise Choay, the Minister of Housing in France, in November 1973, when she invited the Center for Environmental Structure to join her analysis of poor quality, ...

References

Reports

The New Apartment House - Project 46 01/01/1975

Project, Project Report

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Walter V. Wendler, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

87-page project report which describes a new form of apartment house, intended for families who own their apartments. The aim of the project was to propose a new kind of apartment which has life and is personal to the people ...