Neighborhood of Seventy Low-Cost Houses: Photographs of sketches

01/05/1986

Design Process, Drawing

Nine sketches by Christopher Alexander and Artemis Anninou showing the sequential steps of the house volume layout and design process, initially simulated and tested on paper and models. A more advanced version of them was implemented on the actual site with the participation of the families. The simulations took into account the different site conditions.

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Project 1 Items

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 ...

References

Scientific Research 2 Items

Records 1 Items

Neighborhood of Seventy Low-Cost Houses: Colombia House Layout Process on Site 2 2nd verion 01/01/1988

Project, Design Process, Layout Process on Site

Digitized

32-page document describing the layout process for the Colombia house in two major parts. Part One “Layout of the Street”, establishes the way by which the specific location of house volumes contributes in shaping the street as a whole. This ...