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Low Cost Houses for Mexicali: Production of earth-cement interlocking blocks
1975Production of earth-cement blocks in the builder's yard, vibrated and compressed in a block-making machine, and fabricated on the basis of specially designed and made steel molds for four different shapes of blocks; cylindrical blocks for free standing columns, corner square castellated blocks to receive the wall blocks, long and narrow blocks for walls, all hollow, self-centering wall blocks, and special foundation blocks.
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Low Cost Houses for Mexicali: Specifications and costs for the ISSSTECALI housing project
01/01/1976
31-page document describing the project construction process and the construction operations to be followed, in order to produce affordable and quality houses, designed and built by their owners on a community or on a larger city level.
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Low Cost Houses for Mexicali: Construction operations
01/01/1976
40-page document outlines the twenty three construction steps of the Mexicali project, which illustrate the step-by-step construction process, and it is organized into ten major building operations. Each building operation includes the “Summary of Operation” chart, detailed drawings and description ...
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Low Cost Houses for Mexicali - Production of earth-cement interlocking blocks: Photographs of the four types of blocks
01/01/1976
Seven photos illustrating the different blocks produced specifically for the project in the builder’s yard; square and cylindrical blocks for columns, thin rectangular blocks for walls and wider blocks for foundations. A couple of them were exhibited at the Locus Manifesto-exposition ...
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Low Cost Houses for Mexicali - Production of earth-cement interlocking blocks: Photographs of drawings
01/01/1976
Two photographs of construction details drawings, the first depicting the basic interlocking block wall system and the second the production molds.
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Low Cost Houses for Mexicali - Production of earth-cement interlocking blocks: Photographs of fabrication process
01/01/1976
Six different photos showing the method and process of fabrication; three illustrating the design and fabrication of block molds, and three more the block production equipment.
References
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The Production of Houses
1985
The fifth volume in “The Center for Environmental Structure Series” on architecture published by Oxford University Press, “The Production of Houses” puts Alexander’s theories to the test and shows what sort of production system can create the kind of environment Alexander ...
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The Nature of Order - An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe.
Book Three - A Vision of a Living World
2005
“A Vision of a Living World”, the third volume of “The Nature of Order” series, presents, for the first time, a full spectrum of Alexander’s and CES built and unbuilt works. The book describes hundreds of buildings, plans, neighborhoods, drawings, ...
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Chapter 2. The Builder's Yard
1985.I.PROHO.II.2
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Chapter 14. Construction Elements as Living Centers, 6/ Unfolding Building Details from the Fundamental Process
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Chapter 16. Continuous Invention of New Materials and Techniques, 10 / The Paradigm of Smooth Unfolding as a Target for Every Construction Technique