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Santa Rosa de Cabal, Colombia Project

A 1988-1995 project with 76 families in the Colombian mountains using the generative process for individualized house design.

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

Thinkers (2)

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Hernan Alesia
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Head of Construyamos who initially resisted individual house designs but was persuaded of their importance.
Jerome Nadeliffe
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Listed alongside Alexander in the Santa Rosa de Cabal project documentation.

Institutes (1)

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Construyamos
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Colombian self-help cooperative that collaborated on the Santa Rosa project.

Concepts (1)

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Fundamental process
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The core iterative procedure that creates living structure; the engine of living process

Chapters (1)

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Chapter 11: How Living Processes Must Generate Necessary Further Dynamics of Any Neighborhood Which Comes to Life
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The working unit being extracted; covers dynamic neighborhood generation, structure-preserving transformations, and case studies in Colombia, Venezuela, Israel, and San Francisco.

Claims (1)

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In miniature, the Fort Mason bench and its ornaments display the same morphological features as the layout of a neighborhood displays in the large — the fundamental process works at all scales
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Alexander's cross-scale invariance claim about the living process.