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Low-cost Houses for Mexicali: Photographs of the project twenty years later

01/01/1996
Exterior View

Eight photos of the project, with different views from the street and the courtyard of the clusters.

Photograph:

  • 1) Two adjacent properties, twenty years later separated by walls
  • 2) The long arcade in the common land of the house cluster
  • 3) The entrance gate in the house cluster and new perimeter wall
  • 4) The builders yard coutyard with the fountain and entrance gate
  • 5) In the garden of a house, now walled from its adjacent property
  • 6) House cluster courtyard; one of the houses seems deserted
  • 7) House cluster courtyard
  • 8) The entrance gate in the house cluster
Content of
  • Low Cost Houses for Mexicali 1975 to 1977
    Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico
    Low Cost Housing, Realized , Construction completed in 1977
    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 ...
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