Go BackThe Peru Project – Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Cross sections of rooms depicting the entire construction system
01/01/1969Two cross section drawings demonstrating the complete system of construction innovations to be implemented in each house, using mortarless load bearing cavity walls coated with molten sulphur for tensile reinforcement, and light weight beam and plank system made out of bamboo and foam.
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Peru Project - Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Composite bamboo foam beams
1969
Boxed beams rectangular in section, 20 cm wide, 40 cm deep and 5 meters long, made of 6cm bamboos, placed over plywood templates, with a core of poly-urethane fire-retardant foam, foamed in place. The bamboos are pinned and spot glued ...
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Peru Project - Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Composite bamboo foam planks
1969
The 2nd floor and roof structure are bamboo/polyurethane foam sandwitch planks laid over beams. The outer skin of the planks are made of 6cm bamboos and the core is two lbs. density polyurethane. A sand-sulfur topping is poured after planks ...
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Peru Project - Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Interlocking concrete blocks for mortarless block wall
1969
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 ...
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