Go BackThe Peru Project – Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Interlocking concrete blocks for mortarless block wall & Composite bamboo/polyurethane foam beams – Photographs of drawings
01/01/1969Two photograph of construction details.
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Peru Project - Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Composite bamboo foam beams
1969
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 ...
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Peru Project - Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Interlocking concrete blocks for mortarless block wall
1969
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 ...
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The Peru Project - Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Interlocking concrete blocks for mortarless block wall - Drawings
01/01/1969
Early construction details of square and round concrete blocks for columns, column capitals and brackets.
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The Peru Project - Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Composite bamboo & polyurethane foam beams - Drawings
01/01/1969
Sketches illustrating various types of composite bamboo and polyurethane foam beam. The beam developed was 40cm high with bamboos forming the beam perimeter. .