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Low-cost Houses for Mexicali: Photographs of building details

01/01/1976
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Seventeen photos of project details, like domes, barrel vaults, roof edges, walls with cornices, windows, columns, porches, and other construction detailing. .

Photograph:

  • 1) Roof perimeter cornice and dome
  • 2) Vaulted roofs and cornices
  • 3) Interplay of barrel vaulted roofs
  • 4) Wall and roof cornice treatment, with vaulted roofs
  • 6) Easily accessible barrel vaulted roofs
  • 7) A barrel vaulted roof covered with clay tiles, at some point
  • 8) Entrance to a house
  • 9) Corner porch, round columns, low wallls and exposed wooden beams
  • 10) Front porch, round columns, low wallls and exposed wooden beams
  • 11) Small window just below the cable end of the barrel vault
  • 12) Wooden bay window detail, with deep recess
  • 17) Details of the arcade at the builders' yard
Content of
  • 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 ...
References
  • Wholeness as a Tangible and Objective Quality: The Mirror of the Self
    In any process of design or making, the next step which is most structure-enhancing, is that step which most intensifies the feeling of the emerging whole. What ultimately matters in this process is that the work produced generates feeling in ...
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