Photograph

The Peru Project – Fourteen Low Cost Houses: Photographs of drawings

01/01/1971

Drawing

Elevation drawings of the 14-house constructed prototype cluster, in two different settings.

Photographer:

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

Source:

PMT, Negative

Characteristics:

8 1/2"x11", B&W

Content of

Project

Peru Project - Fourteen Low Cost Houses 1971 to 1975

11km north of Lima, Lima, Peru

Low Cost Housing, Realized , Invited Competition, Pilot construction project completed in 1975

Client:

Mr. Peter Land, United Nations coordinator of PREVI project

C.E.S. staff:

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

Contractor:

Conglomerate of local Peruvian contractors

Sponsor:

United Nations

Project cost:

$75,000

Project stages:

Construction Drawings

Construction of one group of fourteen (14) houses, part of the first experimental pilot project, built together with the schemes of the other twelve architectural firms which participated in the international PREVI competition.

Contents

Photographs

References

Drawings

The Peru Project - Fourteen Low Cost Houses: Construction Drawings - Neighborhood Elevations 30/09/1971

Architectural Design, Project, Construction Drawings, Section, Elevation

Designers:

Christopher Alexander, Sanford Hirshen, Sara Ishikawa, Christie Coffin, Shlomo Angel, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Original on Tracing Paper

Size:

24"x40"

Scale:

1:100

Two large drawings depicting the various composite elevations of the neighborhood: 1) West Elevation, with the main entrance to the neighborhood cell and the South and North Elevations of the interior street views; 2) North and South Elevations from an ...