Peru Project – Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Interlocking concrete blocks for mortarless block wall

1969
Construction System, Cement Interlocking Blocks
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 concrete with reinfrcement, or are reinforced with sulphur fiber.
Created by:
Christopher Alexander, Sanford Hirshen, Sara Ishikawa, Christie Coffin, Shlomo Angel
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