Photograph

The Peru Project – Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Photographs of existing patterns

01/01/1969

Site Existing Conditions, Patterns for Project

Five images depicting the patterns ‘Walled Gardens,’ ‘Activity Nuclei,’ ‘Central Market,’ included in the pattern language used in the design process of the neighborhood. The ‘Activity Nuclei’ photograph depicts a negative example as well, unlike the others.

Photographer:

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

Source:

Digital, Negative

Characteristics:

2 1/4"x2 1/4", 56mm, B&W

Content of

Project

Peru Project - Low Cost Housing for the United Nations 1969 to 1970

11km north of Lima, Lima, Peru

Master Planning, Low Cost Housing, Realized , Invited Competition, Proposal submitted in 1970

Client:

Mr. Peter Land, United Nations coordinator of PREVI project

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Sanford Hirshen, Sara Ishikawa, Christie Coffin, Shlomo Angel

Sponsor:

United Nations

Project cost:

$1,800-$3,800 / house

Project stages:

Pattern language for the project by C.E.S. Generic rules for choice process Preliminary Design Innovative construction methods

Master plan for a community of 1500 houses, submitted as one out of twelve other competition entries for the United Nations sponsored international housing competition PREVI (Proyecto Experimental de Vivienda). The Center for Environmental Structure was chosen as the ...

Contents

Photographs

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References

Scientific Research

Project Specific Pattern Languages - Specificity and Generality of Pattern Languages

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Pattern Languages in Practice

A shared pattern language in a project acts as the generic system which gives the power to the smaller local acts to form a whole. Within the process of making a project, every individual act of building differentiates space. However, ...

Published Books

Houses Generated by Patterns 01/01/1969

Publication, Original Book

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Sanford Hirshen, Sara Ishikawa, Christie Coffin, Shlomo Angel

Publisher:

Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

The second of Alexander’s early works published by the Center for Environmental Structure, lays out the process of creating the pattern language for a group of houses designed for an experimental housing competition in Lima, Peru in 1969. It ...