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The Peru Project – Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Interlocking concrete blocks for mortarless block wall – Photographs of mock-ups

01/01/1969
Construction Experiment & Mock-up

Twelve photographs of onsite full-scale mock-ups of the cavity wall made of interlocking, mortarless, self-aligning concrete blocks.

Photograph:

  • 1) Front view of interlocked blocks forming the beginning of a wall
  • 2) Two blocks just before being interlocked
  • 3) Two blocks reached the interlocked position
  • 4) Cement block in the hands of a person
  • 5) Detail of the joints between the interlocked blocks
  • 6) Another view of the joints between the interlocked blocks
  • 7) Side view of the interlocked blocks and the wall cavity formed; the mold of the block is seen behind the wall
  • 8) Another front view of interlocked blocks forming the beginning of a wall
Content of
  • Peru Project - Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Interlocking concrete blocks for mortarless block wall 1969
    Construction System, Cement Interlocking Blocks
    Bearing walls, shear walls and ground floor partitions are cavity walls of interlocking, self-aligning concrete blocks, moulded on site. The block is self-supporting up to a height of three floors. Vertical edges, corners and horizontal upper edges are either poured ...
References
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  • Peru Project - Low Cost Housing for the United Nations 1969 to 1970
    11km north of Lima, Lima, Peru
    Master Planning, Low Cost Housing, Realized , Invited Competition, Proposal submitted in 1970
    Master plan for a community of 1500 houses, submitted as one out of twelve other competition entries for the United Nations sponsored international housing competition PREVI (Proyecto Experimental de Vivienda). The Center for Environmental Structure was chosen as the ...
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