Go BackThe Peru Project – Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Photographs of drawings
01/01/1969Four photographs of the road system with its three major overlapping circulation configurations, serving the whole community and all the cells.
They were exhibited at the 14th International Architecture Biennale Exhibition: “Office US”.
Photograph:
- 1) The community spine or 'paseo' is a sequence of looped paths, connected by a sequence of small squares
- 2) Local road system, consisting of one lane, one-way looped roads, each one serving serving no more than 100 houses
- 3) The pedestrian network consists of paths forming a diagonal network which crosses the looped roads at right angles
- 4) The three road systems
References
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Project Specific Pattern Languages - Specificity and Generality of Pattern Languages
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