Photograph

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

01/01/1971

Drawing

Floor plans of the constructed prototype house: Foundation Plan & Ground Floor Plan, and 2nd Floor Plan with Roof Plan.

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 - Typical House Floor Plans 30/09/1971

Architectural Design, Project, Construction Drawings, Floor Plan, Roof Plan

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:

1:50

Two large drawings which include: 1. Foundation Plan and Ground Floor Plan; 2. Second Floor Plan and Roof Plan of a typical house.