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

01/01/1969
Architectural Design, Preliminary Design, Layout Process

Sequence of the twenty steps of the choice and combination process laid out in eighteen drawings, each one depicting the size alternatives offered to each family by each step of the process, during which they adjust the generic house layout to their particular and unique needs. The drawings cover Step 5 up to Step 20, as follows: Step 5) Position of patio openings; Step 6) General position of front door; Step 7) Sala size and position and exact position of front door; Step 8) Detail of front door if at front end; Step 9) Size of front patio; Step 10) Family room; Step 11) Stairs; Step 12) Kitchen and laundry; Step 13) Master bedroom and bathroom layout; Step 14) Back cluster of bed alcoves; Step 15) Front cluster of bed alcoves, with three alternatives a, b, c; Step 16) Mirador; Step 17) Position of windscoop; Step 18) Bed alcove for grandmother; Step 19) Position of shop; Step 20) Back door and rental space.

Designers:
Christopher Alexander, Sanford Hirshen, Sara Ishikawa, Christie Coffin, Shlomo Angel, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Medium:
Original on Tracing Paper
Size:
8 1/2x12", 17"x24", 24"x33"
Scale:
1:100
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