Photograph

Low-cost Houses for Mexicali: Photographs of drawings

01/01/1976

Drawing

Photographs of eight project drawings, including axonometrics, floor plans and sketches of the builders yard and the five-house cluster. Special interest draw two sketches, one of the house cluster drawn on a blackboard, and the other one of a site plan with a sequential development of house clusters.

Photograph:

Photographer:

Christopher Alexander/C.E.S., Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital, PMT, Negative

Characteristics:

8 1/2"x11", 4"x5", B&W

Content of

Project 1 Items

Low Cost Houses for Mexicali 1975 to 1977

Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico

Low Cost Housing, Realized, Construction completed in 1977

Client:

Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Mexicali - Mr. Jorge Nunez, Director of the School of Architecture

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Julio Martinez, Howard Davis, Donald Corner, students and families

Contractor:

Built by the families and local subcontractors under the management of the Center for Environmental Structure

Sponsor:

University of Baja California

Project cost:

$70,000

Project stages:

Pattern language for the project by C.E.S. Layout on the ground by clients and C.E.S. Preliminary Design drawings done after layout Direct Construction management along with on-site design decisions Budget and subcontractors under C.E.S. control Users in

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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