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Low Cost Houses for Mexicali: Sketches of subdivision process
8 8) Final lot subdivision with name of owners and lot sizes
Eight outline sketches of the house cluster recording parts of the sequence of the subdivision process, which was performed together with the families on the land, using stakes, blocks and chalk lines to mark corners and boundaries.
Drawing:
- 1) Two alternative subdivision schemes
- 2) Rough sketch of house cluster with common land and the five lots
- 3) Sketches of house cluster with common land and the five lots
- 4) Record from first stake out with the families on the land
- 5) Lot subdivision and common land as staked out on site
- 6) Attempts to test shapes of volumes in each lot
- 7) Attempting improvements on the shape of the common land
- 8) Final lot subdivision with name of owners and lot sizes
References
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