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A Pattern Language - Concept & Application at Triad Office 5 Dec.
- 1. A Pattern Language Concept and Exercise
- 2. What are Patterns anyways? Patterns anyways? • Diagrams • a “soft” system of rules • Affectionate Cooperation
- 4. A Grammar of Urban • Richness • Self-enabling • A mathematician architect
- 6. Battle for ordinary human Existence • “Supermarket approach” to sustainability • Focus on adaptation • Wholeness
- 10. Sunny Place (161) Usage Private Terrace On The Street (140) Outdoor Room (163) Six-Foot Balcony (167) Paths And Goals (120) Ceiling Height Variety (190) Columns At The Corners (212) Front Door Bench (242) Raised Flowers (245) Different Chairs (251)
- 11. Don’t agree?
- 16. Application
- 17. Urban Negotiation • Simulating the process of building a city, or a society • Common sense perspective and intuition in everyday life • Personal goal-setting
- 18. Walking
- 20. Provided Materials • A Pattern Language Pattern Cards • Group Works Pattern Cards • • Pre-defined walk Self-constructed map • • • Facilitator Judge Agents
- 22. Story-telling • • • Reflecting on your path Dreams and playfulness Feedback, supportive learning
Editor's Notes
- Now we enter into the next phase of the workshop
- + it contains that analysis – and they’re all about issues pertaining to a simple Indian village. I made a set of diagrams. Gujarat Commission refused. particularly anthropology governing human settlements, villages and houses. I became familiar with the literature of fifteen or twenty different cultures, just to see how it worked. What I was asking myself when I read these various ethnographies, was what was going on? How come people knew how to build beautiful and practical buildings without any architects? Sounds like a ridiculous question, but it was really troubling to me. +Then I finally realised that every one of these cultures had essentially a system of rules – though ‘rules’ is too strong a word because they were not binding. They weren’t being forced down somebody’s throat, but they were rules that everyone understood and which had to be used to get a good result. So I started experimenting with this and the work of decomposing the issues that surrounded that village – not the one I was asked to build, but the one where I was living, I had to find some practical way that I could put this to use, and make it into something practical that Indian village people could use. +whether we’re talking about a village, urban community or whatever. So it’s the input of the people and their affectionate cooperation. That was one of the obvious strong points and was relatively easy to do because I liked asking people questions and talking to them.
- You can use it to design a house for yourself, with your family; or to work with other people to design an office or a workshop or a public building like a school. And you can use it to guide you in the actual process of construction. The elements of this language are entities called patterns. Each pattern describes a problem which occurs over and over again in our environment, and then describes the core of the solution to that problem. In such a way that you can use this solution a million times over, without ever doing it the same way twice.
- + Pattern Language is the distillation of natural pattern into an understandable grammar for the built environment. Readable, experiential, and in hypertext, modular fashion, providing a richness of + Advancing the idea of self-building, self-repairing, and self-improving, in an effort to democratize architecting. Humanistic, scientific, and artistic methodology to create architecture, cities, towns in a natural, living and unfolding process. + In the 1970s, architect Christopher Alexander, at the Center for Environmental Structure in Berkeley, California, published a trilogy of books—The Timeless Way of Building, A Pattern Language, and The Oregon Experiment. Centered on the issue of architecture without architects. (while in Havard and Berkley) Interaction designer and computer programmer love Christopher Alexander, while architects, Peter Eisenmann not so much.
- Behind this format, lies two purposes, each pattern is connected to other patterns, sorry, I haven’t had the chance to complete all the related pattern sections. If you had these connections you can grasps the collection of all 253 patterns as a whole, as a language. Within which you can create an infinite variety of combinations.
- + complex systems theory and biology already understand these things in their own ways. But oddly enough, the very large community of architects, planners, and ecologists committed to sustainable architecture, building, and planning have not yet really understood the concept of wholeness. Interacting, interweaving systems.
- + his critique of the “supermarket approach” to sustainability, and his charge that New Urbanism, while well-intentioned, is not deeply different from other forms of technocratic Modernism.
- + Briefly it may be called “adaptive morphogenesis.” It’s an adaptive process which allows the whole to guide the formation of the parts created within in it, so it all fits together comfortably. It allows minute adaptations at many points going forward.
- + complex systems theory and biology already understand these things in their own ways. But oddly enough, the very large community of architects, planners, and ecologists committed to sustainable architecture, building, and planning have not yet really understood the concept of wholeness. Interacting, interweaving systems. Quantum mechanics asserts, via the mathematics, that particles are physically affected in their behavior by the wholeness of the space in which they move.... [Wholeness] is not restricted to buildings or works of art, but is valid and essential even in those parts of the world we have historically believed to be mechanical in nature. [7, p. 467]
- I started with PRIVATE TERRACE oN THE STREET ( q .o). That pattern calls for a terrace, slightly raised, connected to the house, and on the street side. SUNNY PLACE (I 6 I) suggests that a special place on the sunny side of the yard should be intensified and made into a place by the use of a patio, balcony, outdoor room, etc. I used these two patterns to locate a raised platform on the south side of the house. To make this platform into an OUTDOOR ROOM (I63), I put it half under the existing roof overhang, and kept a mature pyracanthus tree right smack in the middle of the platform. The overhead foliage of the tree added to the roof-like enclosure of the space. I put a wind screen of fixed glass on the west side of the platform too, to give it even more enclosure. I used SIX-FOOT BALCONY (I 67) to determine the size of the platform. But this pattern had to be used judiciously and not blindly-the reasoning for the pattern has to do with the minimum space required for people to sit comfortably and carry on a discussion around a small side-table. Since I wanted space for at least two of these conversation areas-one under the roof for very hot or rainy days, and one out under the sky for days when you wanted to be full in the sun, the balcony had to be made I 2 x I 2 feet square. Now PATHS AND GOALS (I 20): Usually, this pattern deals with large paths in a neighborhood, and comes much earlier in a language. But I used it in a special way. It says that the paths which naturally get formed by people's walking, on the land, should be preserved and intensified. Since the path to our front door cut right across the corner of the place where I had planned to put the platform, I cut the corner of the platform off. The height of the platform above the ground was determined by CEILING HEIGHT VARIETY (I 90). By building the platform approximately one foot above the ground line, the ceiling height of the covered portion came out at between 6 and 7 feet-just right for a space as small as this. Since this height above the ground level is just about right for sitting, the pattern FRONT DOOR BENCH ( 2,p) was automatically satisfied. There were three columns standing, supporting the roof over the old porch. They had to stay where they are, because they hold the roof up. But, following COLUMNS AT THE CORNERS (212), the platform was very carefully tailored to their positions-so that the columns help define the social spaces on either side of them. Finally, we put a couple of flower boxes next to the "front door bench"-it's nice to smell them when you sit there-according to RAISED FLOWERS ( 24 5) . And the old chairs you can see in the porch are DIFFERENT CHAIRS (251). You can see, from this short example, how powerful and simple a pattern language is. And you are now, perhaps ready to appreciate how careful you must be, when you construct a language for yourself and your own project.
- No inventiveness, too deterministic, Read it: 1000 page book! 1977 Applications: word cunningham, object oriented programmers, christian chramlisher, erin mollow social media design patterns to the web. Marvin Minsky founding father of AI, intelligent-problem solving languages.
- Will Wright designed sims
- Ward Cunningham
- alan cooper
- The rise of the computer aided design The missing connection between science and human experience, between systems and individual perception.
- Play a game of Understanding complex, dynamic urban system. think about them, but are not conscious of the role of morphological elegance in the unfolding. In a biological case, they always are elegant and the unfolding morphology is a sort of magic. But it’s very simple.It’s not as if it’s magic because it’s complicated, it’s just….like that. The order works down from the largest, regions, towns, then neighborhoods, clusters of buildings, buildings, rooms and alcoves, ending finally with details of constructions. Turning this designing tool to an analytical tool. The results of this pilot study suggest an opportunity to further investigate the role that personal experience can play in developing inquiry skills and scientific understanding.