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+ | This book, with a 1968 copyright by [[http:// | ||
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+ | ====== Introduction ====== | ||
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+ | In this report we present a prototype for multi-service center buildings. | ||
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+ | A multi-service center is a community facility, which provides a variety of special services to citizens. It is intended especially to help solve some of the problems of low income communities. Experimental multi-service centers have been started in many cities throughout the United States. However, there is not yet any agreement about the form which multi-service centers should take – either in their human organization, | ||
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+ | Our report deals chiefly with the spatial organization, | ||
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+ | We have not designed a prototype in quite the conventional sense, and must begin with a word of explanation about the nature and purpose of prototype buildings. [p. 1] | ||
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+ | A prototype is a generic scheme. It has not special site, no real client, no climate, no particular size. It is a kind of imaginary building, which is meant to convey certain essential ideas to designers of similar buildings. It is usually presented by means of loosely drawn schematic drawings, so that designers who are designing a building of this type, can mould it to fit whatever specific local conditions they are confronted with. It is meant to convey some essential, generic ideas, which can be applied many times over to special cases. It defines a family of buildings; and its meant to define this family of buildings in such a way that anyone who understands the prototype will be able to design specific members of this family. [pp. 1-2] | ||
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+ | The ultimate purpose of a prototype design, then, is to provide guidelines which will generate a large number of specific buildings. | ||
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+ | Under close scrutiny, this idea does not stand up very well. The range of variation which will be required by the different members of any family of buildings, lie well outside the range which can be accurately conveyed by any single drawing -- no matter how " | ||
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+ | Our approach to prototype is intended to overcome this difficulty. | ||
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+ | What we have devised, then, is a system of generating principles, which can be richly transformed according to local circumstances but which never fail to convey their essentials. | ||
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+ | Our system then, is more in the spirit of a grammar than the convention prototype permits. | ||
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+ | This report has four chapters and an appendix. | ||
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+ | In Chapter I, for the sake of concreteness, | ||
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+ | In Chapter II we discuss the nature of the individual patterns. | ||
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+ | In Chapter III, we show how these patterns may be combined to form multi-service centers. | ||
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+ | In Chapter IV, we discuss the nature of the pattern language more fully. | ||
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+ | In the Appendix -- the longest chapter -- we present the 64 patterns in full. [p. 3] | ||
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+ | Throughout the report, and especially in the patterns, the reader will find terms he may not be familiar with. The following gives brief definitions of those most frequently used. The numbers in brackets refer to pages where the reader will find a more complete definition. | ||
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+ | __Target Area__: The geographic area and the population service by a program (in this case a Multi-Service Center). | ||
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+ | __Service__: | ||
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+ | __Community Project__: Any program or project initiated by a community resident or community group, and run by community people. | ||
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+ | __Board of Directors__: | ||
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+ | __Subcommittee__: | ||
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+ | __Core Services__: Staff hired by, and responsible to the Board of Directors, whose function it is to keep the Multi-Service Center running -- specifically to perform outreach, intake, to refer people to proper services, to evaluate existing services and initiate new ones. (137) [p. 3] | ||
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+ | __Outreach__: | ||
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+ | __Intake__: | ||
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+ | __Blockworker__: | ||
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+ | __Service Backup__: All service personnel excluding interviewers and receptionists. | ||
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+ | Chapter I, the [[: | ||
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+ | ===== References ===== | ||
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+ | Alexander, Christopher, | ||