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Peru Project – Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Interlocking concrete blocks for mortarless block wall
1969Bearing walls, shear walls and ground floor partitions are cavity walls of interlocking, self-aligning concrete blocks, moulded on site. The block is self-supporting up to a height of three floors. Vertical edges, corners and horizontal upper edges are either poured concrete with reinfrcement, or are reinforced with sulphur fiber.
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The Peru Project - Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Interlocking concrete blocks for mortarless block wall
01/01/1969
Axonometric drawing showing part of a mortarless wall constructed by interlocking blocks and its connection to the floating slab.
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The Peru Project - Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Various details of columns
01/01/1969
One page with various early construction details of square and round column prefabricated concrete segments, and column capitals, not used in the project.
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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: 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: Interlocking concrete blocks for mortarless block wall - Photographs of drawings
01/01/1969
Photograph of sketch depicting the continuous electrical system; detail of the electrical system, as a continuous elastomeric strip, mounted onto the surface of the block walls.
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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 ...