Drawing

The Peru Project – Fourteen Low Cost Houses: Construction Drawings – Structural Frame

30/09/1971

Structural Design, Construction Drawings, Axonometric

One large axonometric drawing depicting the main structural frame of a typical house.

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:

1:50

Content of

Project

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

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

Axonometric of the structural wall and floor frame used for the construction of the 14-house constructed prototype cluster.