Eugene, Oregon 1992
designed and built by Christopher Alexander
and his collegues from The Center for Environmental Structure
with students from the architecture program at UC Berkeley using techniques described in A Pattern Language
and The Timeless Way of Building
Agate student housing, University of Oregon. Four apartment buildings, all similar in plan and form, but each one individually tailored to the site, position, sunlight, trees, roads, and views. Christopher Alexander, Hajo Neis, James Maguire, Gary Black, David Edrington, Rob Thallon, Chuck Han, 1992The entrance gate from the street to a very small domain of public space, a public hall in miniatureEarly in-progress model of the Agate project. This is a typical cardboard model at a scale of 1:200, which completes the space- and volume-forming phase of the workA view of the finished structureThe plan of the Agate project, showing the complex pattern of positive outdoor spaces which emergedA view of the finished structureA view of the finished structureA view of the courtyardAn entrancewayBuilding plans
