Low-cost Houses for Mexicali: Photographs of the layout process
5 5) Chalking out lines between blocks to test shape of open space and access paths

01/01/1976

Layout Process on Site

Five photos from the layout process of the house cluster by the families on the site ground, using corner stakes, blocks and chalk lines to mark corners and edges of buildings and open space.

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Project 1 Items

Low Cost Houses for Mexicali 1975 to 1977

Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico

Low Cost Housing, Realized , Construction completed in 1977

A cluster of houses for large families, with a builders yard, built by the families themselves with the help of students from the Universidad Autonoma of Mexico, and a team of builders from the Center for Environmental Structure. Each house ...

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Scientific Research 2 Items

The Layout Process of Buildings on the Land - Visualization at Full Scale on Site

Each act of building needs to have a positive effect on its surroundings; to complete them, preserve their structure, make them better, by creating strong centers in them and next to them. Each new building is more alive when it ...
Dynamics of a Growing Neighborhood - Rules and Patterns for Laying out a Neighborhood

Neighborhoods and communities grow and change over time, and the effect of time on the process of its adaptation on real needs is huge, and leads to types and styles of order quite different from any planned arrangement, based on ...

Low-cost Houses for Mexicali: Photographs of the layout process 5 5) Chalking out lines between blocks to test shape of open space and access paths

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Low-cost Houses for Mexicali: Photographs of the layout process
5 5) Chalking out lines between blocks to test shape of open space and access paths