Arch. 201, Spring 1987 – Pasadena Multi-Family Housing: Building rules & sequences developed and tested in the studio project

01/03/1987

Design Studio Course, Teaching Assignment

Material provided to the students to be used in the project development: 1) 8-page typed design guidelines on the “Sequence for the Emergence of Entities in an Apartment Complex”; 2) Hand-written notes on “Assumptions for Class Model”; 3) Hand-written notes on issues to be raised in the 10-Apr-1987 studio class.

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Artemis Anninou, University of California Berkeley, College of Environmental Design, Department of Architecture, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Content of

Academic Course

Design studio on the Pasadena Multi-family Housing 1987

University Program:

Master of Architecture

Course type:

Graduate Design Studio

Course number:

Arch. 201

Instructors:

Christopher Alexander, Artemis Anninou

Enrolled students:

John Raymond Byram, Catherine Drayton, Stephen Duff, You-Tien Hsing, Fanta Lawrence, Shengfong Lin, Anne Phillips, Randall Schmidt, Margaret Sheehan, Masanori Tada, Kleoniki Tsotropoulou

The Spring 1987 design studio addressed the generative sequences for the process of design and the issuance of building permits for a new class of apartment buildings in Pasadena, which would respect its tradition by making the garden the most ...

Contents

Course Material

References

Projects

Pasadena Zoning Ordinance for Multi-family Housing 1987 to 1988

Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.

Zoning Ordinance, Residential, Realized , Completed in 1988 and implemented

Client:

Pasadena Multi-family Housing Task Force

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Artemis Anninou, Friso Broeksma

Project cost:

$135,000

Project stages:

Pattern language for project by C.E.S. Generative rules for urban growth process Generative rules for building layout process Implementation process

The purpose of the draft ordinance was to define new guidelines which would permit high intensity development to continue in a way which is in keeping with Pasadena's heritage. Respect for the existing physical qualities of the old Pasadena residential ...

Photographs

Arch.201: Pasadena Multi-family Housing - Photographs of student model 01/03/1987

Academic, Design Studio Course, Model

Photographer:

Randall Schmidt, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Negative

Characteristics:

35mm, B&W

Twelve views of student model prepared in Spring 1987 M.Arch studio on “Pasadena Multi-Family Housing”.