The Peru Project – Fourteen Low Cost Houses: Construction Drawings – House cluster floor plans

30/09/1971

Architectural Design, Construction Drawings, Floor Plan

Two drawing sheets including the floor plans of the house cluster with the fourteen houses along a central pedestrian street, as they were laid out on the site.

Drawing:

Designers:

Christopher Alexander, Sanford Hirshen, Sara Ishikawa, Christie Coffin, Shlomo Angel, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Original on Tracing Paper

Size:

24"x40"

Scale:

1:100

Content of

Project 1 Items

Peru Project - Fourteen Low Cost Houses 1971 to 1975

11km north of Lima, Lima, Peru

Low Cost Housing, Realized, Invited Competition, Pilot construction project completed in 1975

Client:

Mr. Peter Land, United Nations coordinator of PREVI project

C.E.S. staff:

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

Contractor:

Conglomerate of local Peruvian contractors

Sponsor:

United Nations

Project cost:

$75,000

Project stages:

Construction Drawings

Construction of one group of fourteen (14) houses, part of the first experimental pilot project, built together with the schemes of the other twelve architectural firms which participated in the international PREVI competition.

References

Photographs 1 Items

The Peru Project - Fourteen Low Cost Houses: Photographs of drawings 01/01/1971

Project, Drawing

Photographer:

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

Source:

PMT, Negative

Characteristics:

8 1/2"x11", B&W

Digitized

Images of three drawing sheets of the 14-house constructed house cluster.