Drawing

The Peru Project – Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Preliminary Design Drawings – Construction Process

01/01/1969

Architectural Design, Preliminary Design, Axonometric

Axonometric drawing illustrating in a sequence the phases of the construction process of a house. .

Designers:

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

Medium:

Original on Tracing Paper

Size:

17 7/8"x25"

Content of

Project

Peru Project - Low Cost Housing for the United Nations 1969 to 1970

11km north of Lima, Lima, Peru

Master Planning, Low Cost Housing, Realized , Invited Competition, Proposal submitted in 1970

Client:

Mr. Peter Land, United Nations coordinator of PREVI project

C.E.S. staff:

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

Sponsor:

United Nations

Project cost:

$1,800-$3,800 / house

Project stages:

Pattern language for the project by C.E.S. Generic rules for choice process Preliminary Design Innovative construction methods

Master plan for a community of 1500 houses, submitted as one out of twelve other competition entries for the United Nations sponsored international housing competition PREVI (Proyecto Experimental de Vivienda). The Center for Environmental Structure was chosen as the ...

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, ...

Published Books

Houses Generated by Patterns 01/01/1969

Publication, Original Book

Authors:

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

Publisher:

Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

The second of Alexander’s early works published by the Center for Environmental Structure, lays out the process of creating the pattern language for a group of houses designed for an experimental housing competition in Lima, Peru in 1969. It ...

Photographs

The Peru Project - Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Photographs of drawings 01/01/1969

Project, Drawing

Photographer:

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

Source:

Digital, PMT, Negative

Characteristics:

16"x26", 4"x6", B&W

Axonometric drawing of “Construction” prepared for the design PREVI competition, illustrating the sequence of the construction operations. They were exhibited at the 14th International Architecture Biennale Exhibition: “Office US”.