Low Cost Houses for Mexicali: Preliminary Design Drawings – Clusters

01/01/1976

Architectural Design, Preliminary Design, Floor Plan

Three different drawings of the two clusters of the project, the Builder’s Yard and the Five House Cluster; in the first drawing the two clusters are shown side by side, while the second is a drawing of the house cluster, indicating private and public outdoor spaces, the names of the unit owners, with a more detailed layout of the houses; and the third is a plan of the Builder’s Yard .

Designers:

Christopher Alexander, Julio Martinez, Howard Davis, Donald Corner, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Photocopy

Size:

8 1/2"x11"

Scale:

1:100

Content of

Project

Low Cost Houses for Mexicali 1975 to 1977

Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico

Low Cost Housing, Realized , Construction completed in 1977

Client:

Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Mexicali - Mr. Jorge Nunez, Director of the School of Architecture

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Julio Martinez, Howard Davis, Donald Corner, students and families

Contractor:

Built by the families and local subcontractors under the management of the Center for Environmental Structure

Sponsor:

University of Baja California

Project cost:

$70,000

Project stages:

Pattern language for the project by C.E.S. Layout on the ground by clients and C.E.S. Preliminary Design drawings done after layout Direct Construction management along with on-site design decisions Budget and subcontractors under C.E.S. control Users in

A cluster of houses for large families, with a builders yard, built by the families themselves with the help of students from the Universidad Autonoma of Mexico, and a team of builders from the Center for Environmental Structure. Each house ...

Contents

Drawings

References

Published Books

The Production of Houses 01/01/1985

Publication, Original Book

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Howard Davis, Julio Martinez, Donald Corner

Publisher:

Oxford University Press, New York, NY, U.S.A.

The fifth volume in “The Center for Environmental Structure Series” on architecture published by Oxford University Press, “The Production of Houses” puts Alexander’s theories to the test and shows what sort of production system can create the kind of environment Alexander ...

Photographs

Low Cost Houses for Mexicali: Photographs of drawings 01/01/1976

Project, Drawing

Photographer:

Christopher Alexander/C.E.S., Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital, PMT, Negative

Characteristics:

8 1/2"x11", 4"x5", B&W

Photographs of eight project drawings: Three images with axonometrics of the builder’s yard and the five-house clusters –in the third one the two clusters together; two images of the clusters floor plans, one with the two together and the other ...