Neighborhood of Seventy Low-Cost Houses: Photographs of people during construction

01/11/1989

Working in Construction

Five images of families doing excavation works, after having laid stakes and stretched strings to mark the footprint of the houses on the land during the layout process on the site.

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Neighborhood of Seventy Low Cost Houses 1986 to 1991

Santa Rosa de Cabal, Risaralda, Colombia

Low Cost Housing, Realized , Construction completed in 1993; C.E.S. involvement ended in 1991

Seventy low-cost houses in 4,2 acres, designed by families, and partially built by families, as part of the self help construction process of Construyamos, the largest self help cooperative in Colombia, with a total construction volume of 50,000 houses per ...

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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 ...