Mini-Neighborhood Project

01/04/1987

Student Work, Professional Report

99-page professional report for the Master of Architecture, developing the idea of a mini-neighborhood, as a small neighborhood with affordable small houses, beautifully made, using common land, and based on a layout process, allowing users to layout and design their own houses; also there is a 53-page draft with separate page of Introduction and three drawings.

Authors:

Seth Wachtel, University of California Berkeley, College of Environmental Design, Department of Architecture, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Content of

Academic Course

Guidance and supervision of students in the Master of Architecture Program 1987

University Program:

Master of Architecture

Instructors:

Christopher Alexander

Enrolled students:

Kevin H. Nute, Seth Wachtel, Sid Conn, John Raymond Byram

M.Arch Thesis and Professional Reports submitted for partial completion of the Master of Architecture Program.

Contents

Course Material

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 ...

Articles

Mini-Neighborhoods - High Quality Houses Which the Average American Family Can Afford 01/03/1985

Publication, Paper

Authors:

Christopher Alexander

Publisher:

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

Photographs

Mini-Neighborhood student work - Photographs of student model 01/01/1987

Academic, Design Studio Course, Model

Photographer:

Seth Wachtel, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Print

Characteristics:

4"x15 7/8", 4"x11 7/8", Color

Two photographs depicting one plasteline and balsa wood model of ten houses laid out in ten consecutive lots; the first depicts a roof view of the neighborhood and the other a perspective view.