Drawing

The Peru Project – Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Composite bamboo & polyurethane foam beams and planks against the wall

01/01/1969

Preliminary Design, Axonometric, Details

Axonometric section of an exterior mortarless block cavity wall and its connection to the composite bamboo/polyurethane beam and to the bamboo/polyurethane plank, used for floors.

Content of

Construction Innovation 3 Items

Peru Project - Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Composite bamboo foam beams 1969

Construction System, Bamboo Foam Beam & Plank

Boxed beams rectangular in section, 20 cm wide, 40 cm deep and 5 meters long, made of 6cm bamboos, placed over plywood templates, with a core of poly-urethane fire-retardant foam, foamed in place. The bamboos are pinned and spot glued ...
Peru Project - Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Composite bamboo foam planks 1969

Construction System, Bamboo Foam Beam & Plank

The 2nd floor and roof structure are bamboo/polyurethane foam sandwitch planks laid over beams. The outer skin of the planks are made of 6cm bamboos and the core is two lbs. density polyurethane. A sand-sulfur topping is poured after planks ...
Peru Project - Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Interlocking concrete blocks for mortarless block wall 1969

Construction System, Cement Interlocking Blocks

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 1 Items

Innovative Construction Systems, Techniques and Materials

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, ...

Published Books 1 Items

Houses Generated by Patterns 01/01/1969

Publication, Original Book

The second of Alexander’s early works published by the Center for Environmental Structure, lays out the process of creating the pattern language for a group of houses designed for an experimental housing competition in Lima, Peru in 1969. It ...

Photographs 1 Items

The Peru Project - Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Interlocking concrete blocks for mortarless block wall & Composite bamboo/polyurethane foam beams and planks - Photographs of drawings 01/01/1969

Construction Innovation, Drawing

Photographs of two axonometric drawings with construction details. They were exhibited at the 14th International Architecture Biennale Exhibition: “Office US” in 2014.