Master Planning Process for the Town of Marsta: Concept boards illustrating “A New Kind of Planning Process”

01/01/1972

Visual, Presentation Board

Fourteen large presentation boards illustrating the proposed planning process based on five guiding principles; the first six boards give an overview of them and the planning process in general, providing clarifications on ‘Pattern Language’, ‘Diagnosis’, ‘Projects’, ‘User Groups’ and ‘Procedure’, as design tools of the process. The following four boards depict simulation studies as examples for town growth, and for user groups applying patterns to design neighborhoods, repair an existing area, and layout on the land a public building. The next three boards illustrate procedures enabling users to design an apartment building, a cluster of houses, and an individual house. The last board summarizes the importance of the proposed process.

Visual & Audio Material:

1) A new kind of planning process Introductory overview
2) The Pattern Language, explaining the function of patterns
3) Patterns - List of patterns chosen for the project with summaries
4) Diagnosis - Process for detecting the project areas in need of improvement
5) Projects - Carrying out the improvenets suggested by Diagnosis
6) Procedure - Outlines the overall process with emphasis on user groups, making decisions which satisfy certain patterns
7) Town of Marsta Growth for 1973 - Maps simulating gradual improvements
8) Town of Marsta Neighborhoods - Groups of users using certain large scale patterns
9) Repair of an Existing Area - Using the process of Diagnosis for a case study in the University of Oregon
10) Public Building - Users using patterns layout the Modesto clinic on the land
11) Apartment Building in Marsta - User groups designing for themselves
12) Cluster of Houses - a group of families designing the common land and their houses
13) One Individual House - a family designing their own house
14) This is Your Choice - Summary and importance of the proposed process