The Peru Project – Fourteen Low Cost Houses: Outline Specifications for the project

01/01/1971

Design Matters, Specifications

Seventeen pages organized in three sections: a) Outline Specifications for Previ Project Communal Spaces; b) Notes on Costs – Previ Project; c) Outline Specifications for Previ Project, with guidelines on specific construction issues.

Authors:

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

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.