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method:colombian-house-design-sequenceColombian House Design Sequence
A structured design process developed with Santa Rosa families allowing each family to lay out their own unique house.
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- generative processimplementsA process where the whole creates the conditions for the part, following a vital rhythm in which large precedes small.
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- Nine-step kitchen design sequence focusing on centers: activities, windows, table, fireplace, garden, door, counter, thick walls.
- The counterintuitive sequence of first locating the garden in the most beautiful place, then placing the house to support it; shows the enormous significance of order even for two steps.
- A generative sequence enabling families to lay out an organic, unique, and beautiful house suited to site and people.
- A repeatable sequence of steps using the fifteen transformations to build a highly regular aperiodic grid that fits decisions about volume and interior spaces; a general method for generating building form
- The final refined sequence from a study of high-density urban housing in India; places a plinth, then an ottla (front terrace), then a chase for plumbing, then cuts steps. Represents the nicest sequence among the drafts.
- The initial sequence placing a prefabricated concrete plumbing core at the back of the lot; the least nice sequence in the draft evolution.
- A 24-step generative sequence for designing a traditional Japanese tea house; the chapter uses it to demonstrate effortless unfolding when steps are in the right order.
- Empirical demonstration of the method producing uniqueness.