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The Peru Project – Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Interlocking concrete blocks for mortarless block wall & Composite bamboo/polyurethane foam beams – Photographs of mock-ups
01/01/1969Seven photographs of onsite mock-ups for establishing the connection between the concrete block cavity wall, the composite bamboo/polyurethane beams and the floor planks.
Photograph:
- 1) First attempt for locating the beam at the right level in relation to the wall top layer
- 2) Second attempt with better results
- 3) Close-up view of the second attempt
- 4) Setting the beam at the right level in relation to the wall top layer
- 5) Floor plank being laid on top of the beam and the wall last layer
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Peru Project - Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Composite bamboo foam beams
1969
Boxed beams rectangular in section, 20 cm wide, 40 cm deep and 5 meters long, made of 6cm bamboos, placed over plywood templates, with a core of poly-urethane fire-retardant foam, foamed in place. The bamboos are pinned and spot glued ...
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Peru Project - Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Composite bamboo foam planks
1969
The 2nd floor and roof structure are bamboo/polyurethane foam sandwitch planks laid over beams. The outer skin of the planks are made of 6cm bamboos and the core is two lbs. density polyurethane. A sand-sulfur topping is poured after planks ...
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Peru Project - Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Interlocking concrete blocks for mortarless block wall
1969
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 ...
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