The Peru Project – Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Various details of columns

01/01/1969

Preliminary Design, Axonometric, Details

One page with various early construction details of square and round column prefabricated concrete segments, and column capitals, not used in the project.

Designers:

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

Medium:

Original on Tracing Paper

Size:

8 1/2"x11"

Content of

Construction Innovation

Peru Project - Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Interlocking concrete blocks for mortarless block wall 1969

Construction System, Cement Interlocking Blocks

Created by:

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

Bearing walls, shear walls and ground floor partitions are cavity walls of interlocking, self-aligning concrete blocks, moulded on site. The block is self-supporting up to a height of three floors. Vertical edges, corners and horizontal upper edges are either poured ...

References

Scientific Research

Innovative Construction Systems, Techniques and Materials

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Construction Innovation

One of the main topics of research, included in every building project, was to identify, early on in the design process, the material and techniques of construction. This would re-establish building as an art, and allow rapid shaping and adaptation, ...