Friday, April 26, 2013

Town center plan for a suburban development in Washington State

Design with Laurence Qamar.  This is a former historic town that was redeveloped as a 60s-style (sprawling) resort development.  They are now trying to redevelop to create a proper town center.  Sprawl Repair!

We used a pattern language, and built on the historic architecture of the previous town.  Concept sketches for the street elevations are below.

1 comment:

  1. Michael,

    I like the idea of using patterns as a design and communication tool. Did you and Lawrence create a pattern description for each pattern that you used? Is there some kind of document of the patterns?

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