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Neighborhood of Seventy Low-Cost Houses: Prototype house construction – Photographs

01/11/1989

Work in Progress

Two images of the prototype house in early construction stage, illustrating the first floor construction up to the placement of the lintels.

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Construction Innovation 1 Items

Neighborhood of Seventy Low Cost Houses: Low-cost reinforced concrete beam and column structure with brick infill 1989

Construction System, Reinforced Concrete

The form of construction was based on a building system developed by Consutyamos for "self-help" housing; however a modified version was used, in order to take care of the non-modular and non-repetitive character of the houses, and in order to ...

References

Scientific Research 1 Items

Innovative Construction Systems, Techniques and Materials

One of the main topics of research, included in every building project, was to identify, early on in the design process, the material and techniques of construction. This would re-establish building as an art, and allow rapid shaping and adaptation, ...

Projects 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 ...