Housing Financing as an Inseparable Element of the Building Process – The Mexicali project

01/05/1981

Student Work, Paper

29-page paper on the financing of low income housing, using the Mexicali project as a case study. Written for the CPR 243b course given by the City and Regional Planning Dept. Professor M. Gellen, part of the fulfillment of Ph.D. requirements.

Authors:

Artemis Anninou, University of California Berkeley, College of Environmental Design, Department of Architecture, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

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Content of

Academic Course

Advisor in the Ph.D. Program in Architecture 1986

University Program:

Ph.D. in Architecture

Instructors:

Christopher Alexander - Chair, Sara Ishikawa, Ruth Tringham

Enrolled students:

Artemis Anninou

Heading the committee for the Ph.D. Qualifying Examination and chairing the committee for approving the Doctoral Dissertation submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Architecture.

References

Scientific Research

A New Approach to Design and Construction Management

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Construction Process

A new kind of design/construction/management process, especially for large projects, is required, which will allow the building to be conceived, designed and built so that it comes to life. Below are the ground rules of such a process, already tried ...

Projects

Low Cost Houses for Mexicali 1975 to 1977

Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico

Low Cost Housing, Realized , Construction completed in 1977

Client:

Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Mexicali - Mr. Jorge Nunez, Director of the School of Architecture

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Julio Martinez, Howard Davis, Donald Corner, students and families

Contractor:

Built by the families and local subcontractors under the management of the Center for Environmental Structure

Sponsor:

University of Baja California

Project cost:

$70,000

Project stages:

Pattern language for the project by C.E.S. Layout on the ground by clients and C.E.S. Preliminary Design drawings done after layout Direct Construction management along with on-site design decisions Budget and subcontractors under C.E.S. control Users in

A cluster of houses for large families, with a builders yard, built by the families themselves with the help of students from the Universidad Autonoma of Mexico, and a team of builders from the Center for Environmental Structure. Each house ...