Most apartment buildings around the world might resolve the basic needs of the users, but they often fail to create a meaningful and humane building environment that responds well to human needs. Partly to blame is the fact that these buildings are mostly designed and built by developers without the active participation of the architect and the users in the building process Christopher Alexander's work sets forth a building process that attempts to create harmonious buildings responsive to human needs. He supports that "wholeness" and "order" exists in the built environment as a geometric quality and that this quality is dependent upon the building process that generates it. The more integrated the design and construction processes are and the more involved the architect and the users are in the making process the higher the building quality will be. Thus, he proposes an integrated building process where the architect and the users are working together in shaping their dwellings. This approach of making buildings is not often used in contemporary building and especially in the making of apartment buildings.
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