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Peru Project – Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Composite bamboo foam planks
1969The 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 are in position to form the upper walking surface and the joining between planks. The planks are 15cm thick, 50 cm wide and 5 meters long, supported by similarly constructed beams spaced at intervals between 1 meter and 2.40 metters.
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The Peru Project - Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Cross sections of rooms depicting the entire construction system
01/01/1969
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 ...
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The Peru Project - Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Composite bamboo & polyurethane foam planks
01/01/1969
Detail section of a composite bamboo/polyurethane foam plank, laid over a beam, with sand-sulphur topping on the planks to form the upper walking surface .
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The Peru Project - Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Composite bamboo & polyurethane foam beams and planks against the wall
01/01/1969
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.
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The Peru Project - Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Photographs of drawings
01/01/1969
Photograph of detailed cross section, 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 from ...
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The Peru Project - Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Composite bamboo/polyurethane foam beams and floor planks - Photographs of mock-ups
01/01/1969
Eleven images depicting full scale composite beam and floor mock-ups, assembled together; taken from different angles. Four of them depict people carrying individual beams for assembling them with the wall, and ceiling/second floor planks.
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The Peru Project - Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Composite bamboo/polyurethane foam beams and floor planks - Photographs of model
01/01/1969
Four photographs of the house models. The first image depicts the interior space arrangement of the generic type house model as viewed from the side; the other three images show the ceiling structure of the baboo beams and planks for ...
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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, ...
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Development of first Patterns and Pattern Languages
The first patterns were developed in 1967 by a group of people working together with Christopher Alexander in the Center for Environmental Structure. Between 1968 and 1976 the first pattern languages were developed and tested for particular projects undertaken by ...