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USER-CREATED HOUSING COMMUNITY

Santa Rosa de Cabal, Colombia 1968
designed and built by Christopher Alexander
and his collegues from The Center for Environmental Structure
in conjunction with the Users
using techniques described in A Pattern Language
and The Timeless Way of Building

Finished community
A view of the finished community
Initial site
A view of the initial building site
Breaking ground
Breaking ground
Terracing the land
Terracing the land
Working together
Collectively working on the project
Creating their homes
People creating their own homes
The community grows
The community grows
Scale model
A scale model of the community made from modeling clay and craft wood
Process
The process of building
Building structures
Building structures
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