Drawing

Low Cost Houses for Mexicali: Construction system details – Construction Drawings

01/01/1976

Construction Drawings, Details

Two pages of construction details regarding a) Perimeter beam and concrete roof vault connection and b) Roof vault construction layers.

Designers:

Christopher Alexander, Julio Martinez, Howard Davis, Donald Corner, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Photocopy

Size:

8 1/2"x11"

Content of

Construction Innovation

Low Cost Houses for Mexicali: Basket vault with pumice concrete laid over burlap and chicken-wire 1976

Construction System, Vaulted Roof & Ceiling

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Julio Martinez, Howard Davis, Donald Corner

Construction of basket and groin vaults with light weight pumice concrete laid over woven basket and applied on top of burlap and lath, both stapled into the wooden ribs of the interwoven basket.

References

Scientific Research

Innovative Construction Systems, Techniques and Materials

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Construction Innovation

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, ...

Photographs

Low Cost Houses for Mexicali - Basket vault with pumice concrete laid over basket and burlap and chicken-wire: Photographs of drawings 01/01/1976

Construction Innovation, Drawing

Photographer:

Christopher Alexander/C.E.S., Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

B&W

Two photographs of construction drawings with details, the first illustrating the perimeter beam and concrete vaulted roof connection, and the other the construction layers of the vaulted roof .