Photograph

The Peru Project – Fourteen Low Cost Houses: Photographs of drawings

01/01/1971

Drawing

Axonometric of the structural wall and floor frame used for the construction of the 14-house constructed prototype cluster.

Photographer:

Christopher Alexander/C.E.S., Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

PMT, Negative

Characteristics:

8 1/2"x11", B&W

Content of

Project

Peru Project - Fourteen Low Cost Houses 1971 to 1975

11km north of Lima, Lima, Peru

Low Cost Housing, Realized , Invited Competition, Pilot construction project completed in 1975

Client:

Mr. Peter Land, United Nations coordinator of PREVI project

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Sanford Hirshen, Sara Ishikawa, Christie Coffin, Shlomo Angel

Contractor:

Conglomerate of local Peruvian contractors

Sponsor:

United Nations

Project cost:

$75,000

Project stages:

Construction Drawings

Construction of one group of fourteen (14) houses, part of the first experimental pilot project, built together with the schemes of the other twelve architectural firms which participated in the international PREVI competition.

References

Drawings

The Peru Project - Fourteen Low Cost Houses: Construction Drawings - Structural Frame 30/09/1971

Structural Design, Project, Construction Drawings, Axonometric

Designers:

Christopher Alexander, Sanford Hirshen, Sara Ishikawa, Christie Coffin, Shlomo Angel, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Original on Tracing Paper

Size:

24"x40"

Scale:

1:50

One large axonometric drawing depicting the main structural frame of a typical house.