The Peru Project – Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Interlocking concrete blocks for mortarless block wall – Drawings

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 ...

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, ...

Photograph of construction details regarding primarily the composite bamboo/foam beam types, and the column cement blocks and capitals.