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Low-cost Houses for Mexicali: Photographs of people during construction

01/01/1976
Working in Construction

Ten photos with people working on construction site, building perimeter beams and foundations, erecting walls, doing woodworks or painting, and various other activities.

Photograph:

  • 1) Announcement on construction site blackboard posting works to be accomplished daily
  • 2) Checking bottom of beam with burlap as formwork, when connecting free standing columns
  • 3) Building formwork for perimeter beams
  • 4) Pouring concrete in perimeter beam formwork
  • 5) Completing woodworks
  • 6) Preparing wood for the construction site
  • 7) Commencing the erection of walls
  • 8) Working on foundations
  • 9) Painting the walls of the builders yard
  • 10) Hauling oversized construction material on a truck
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
  • Users Involved in the Construction of their Project
    The benefits of the involvement of the users in the actual construction of their houses under the guidance and management of the architect-builder or the contractor, besides the obvious economical, are manifested in the personal qualities and feeling of these ...
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