Go BackLow-cost Houses for Mexicali: Photographs of the layout process
01/01/1976Five 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.
Photograph:
- 1) Group meeting on the site during the time families laid out their houses on the site grounds
- 2) Families & architects use corner stakes, blocks & chalk marks to identify edges of houses and the common land
- 3) Layout by the families on the ground, using stakes, chalk lines & blocks to indicate the entrance to the courtyard & its fountain
- 4) Constructing the front courtyard of the builders yard, while using blocks to indicate the entrance in the house cluster
- 5) Chalking out lines between blocks to test shape of open space and access paths
References
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