Drawing

The Peru Project – Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Cross sections of rooms depicting the entire construction system
House cross section depicting the entire construction system

01/01/1969

Preliminary Design, Section

Designers:

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

Medium:

Original on Tracing Paper

Size:

16"x22"

Content of

Drawing

The Peru Project - Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Cross sections of rooms depicting the entire construction system 01/01/1969

Preliminary Design, Section

Designers:

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

Medium:

Original on Tracing Paper

Size:

16"x22"

Two cross section drawings demonstrating the complete system of construction innovations to be implemented in each house, using mortarless load bearing cavity walls coated with molten sulphur for tensile reinforcement, and light weight beam and plank system made out of ...