Photograph

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

01/01/1971

Drawing

Image of the main pedestrian street sketch, crossing the house cluster at its center, and formed by the house fronts and their entrances.

Photographer:

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

Source:

PMT, Negative

Characteristics:

8 1/2"x11", B&W

Content of

Project 1 Items

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.

References

Drawings 1 Items

The Peru Project - Fourteen Low Cost Houses: Sketches 01/01/1971

Architectural Design, Project, Sketches

Designers:

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

Medium:

Original on Tracing Paper

Size:

8 1/2"x11"

Scale:

1:100

Digitized

Schematic plan of the main pedestrian street, formed by the house fronts and their entrances.