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Peru Project – Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Composite bamboo foam beams
1969Boxed beams rectangular in section, 20 cm wide, 40 cm deep and 5 meters long, made of 6cm bamboos, placed over plywood templates, with a core of poly-urethane fire-retardant foam, foamed in place. The bamboos are pinned and spot glued together at 50cm intervals, with epoxy glue and wooden dowels.
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The Peru Project - Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Composite bamboo & polyurethane foam beams
01/01/1969
Sketches illustrating various types of composite bamboo and polyurethane foam beam. The beam developed was 40cm high with the fully round bamboos forming the beam perimeter. .
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The Peru Project - Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Cross sections of rooms depicting the entire construction system
01/01/1969
Two cross section drawings demonstrating the complete system of construction innovations to be implemented in each house, using mortarless load bearing cavity walls coated with molten sulphur for tensile reinforcement, and light weight beam and plank system made out of ...
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The Peru Project - Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Composite bamboo & polyurethane foam beams and planks against the wall
01/01/1969
Axonometric section of an exterior mortarless block cavity wall and its connection to the composite bamboo/polyurethane beam and to the bamboo/polyurethane plank, used for floors.
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The Peru Project - Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Interlocking concrete blocks for mortarless block wall & Composite bamboo/polyurethane foam beams - Photographs of drawings
01/01/1969
Photograph of construction details regarding primarily the composite bamboo/foam beam types, and the column cement blocks and capitals.
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The Peru Project - Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Photographs of drawings
01/01/1969
Photograph of detailed cross section, demonstrating the complete system of construction innovations to be implemented in each house, using mortarless load bearing cavity walls coated with molten sulphur for tensile reinforcement, and light weight beam and plank system made from ...
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The Peru Project - Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Composite bamboo/polyurethane foam beams and floor planks - Photographs of mock-ups
01/01/1969
Eleven images depicting full scale composite beam and floor mock-ups, assembled together; taken from different angles. Four of them depict people carrying individual beams for assembling them with the wall, and ceiling/second floor planks.
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Innovative Construction Systems, Techniques and Materials
One of the main topics of research, included in every building project, was to identify, early on in the design process, the material and techniques of construction. This would re-establish building as an art, and allow rapid shaping and adaptation, ...
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Development of first Patterns and Pattern Languages
The first patterns were developed in 1967 by a group of people working together with Christopher Alexander in the Center for Environmental Structure. Between 1968 and 1976 the first pattern languages were developed and tested for particular projects undertaken by ...