The Peru Project – Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Photographs of drawings

01/01/1969

Drawing

Two house sections drawings; construction detailing in the second drawing.
It was exhibited at the 14th International Architecture Biennale Exhibition: “Office US”.

Photographer:

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

Source:

Digital, PMT

Characteristics:

8 1/2"x11", B&W

Content of

Project

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

Client:

Mr. Peter Land, United Nations coordinator of PREVI project

C.E.S. staff:

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

Sponsor:

United Nations

Project cost:

$1,800-$3,800 / house

Project stages:

Pattern language for the project by C.E.S. Generic rules for choice process Preliminary Design Innovative construction methods

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 ...

Contents

Photographs

References

Scientific Research

Designing with Patterns and Generic Rules for Making Centers

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Structure Preserving Transformations

Pattern languages consist of a multitude of patterns which reflect and define a way of life, people's inner feelings and aspirations, they relate to culture, to climate and to the actual place, and they are rooted in observation. During the pattern ...

Published Books

Houses Generated by Patterns 01/01/1969

Publication, Original Book

Authors:

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

Publisher:

Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

The second of Alexander’s early works published by the Center for Environmental Structure, lays out the process of creating the pattern language for a group of houses designed for an experimental housing competition in Lima, Peru in 1969. It ...

Public Events

14th International Architecture Biennale Exhibition: "Office US" 07/06/2014 to 23/11/2014

U.S. Pavillion in Arsenale, Venice, Italy

Exhibition

C.E.S. staff:

Maggie Moore, Artemis Anninou, Lily Alexander

Organized by:

La Biennale di Venezia

The American contribution to the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2014, entitled OfficeUS, looked into the immense built production of American architects abroad. The curators of the US Pavilion chose the Center for Environmental Structure to be among the firms ...

Drawings

The Peru Project - Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Preliminary Design Drawings - Sections 01/01/1969

Architectural Design, Project, Preliminary Design, Section

Designers:

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

Medium:

Original on Tracing Paper

Size:

5 5/8"x17 3/4"

Scale:

1:100

Cross section of the generic house, explaining the relation between the living, more closed spaces and the roof openings facilitating the air movement and the natural light entries throughout the house .