Go BackThe Peru Project – Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Photographs of drawings depicting the “Choice Process”
01/01/1969Sequence of eighteen images, depicting Step-5 to Step-20 of the “Choice Process” followed by each family for designing their individual house. The “Choice Process” is a transformation and adaptation of the generic house to the particular needs and available means of each family. Each step provides a small number of variations of the generic house depending on basic design factors, as orientation, relationship to street, size of house, etc.
Photograph:
- 1) The Choice Process Step 5 - Position of Patio
- 2) The Choice Process Step 6 - General Position of Front Door
- 3) The Choice Process Step 7 - Size and position of sala, and exact position of front door
- 4) The Choice Process Step 8 - Detail of entrance door, if at front end
- 5) The Choice Process Step 9 - Size of front patio
- 6) The Choice Process Step 10 - Size of family room
- 7) The Choice Process Step 11 - Size of family room alcove
- 8) The Choice Process Step 12 - Size and layout of kitchen and laundry
- 9) The Choice Process Step 13 - Master bedroom and bathroom layout
- 10) The Choice Process Step 14 - Back cluster of bed alcoves
- 11) The Choice Process Step 15 - Front cluster of 2 bed alcoves
- 12) The Choice Process Step 15 - Front cluster of 3 bed alcoves
- 13) The Choice Process Step 15 - Front cluster of 4 bed alcoves
- 14) The Choice Process Step 16 - Location of mirador
- 15) The Choice Process Step 17 - Position of windscoop
- 16) The Choice Process Step 18 - Bed alcove for grandmother
- 17) The Choice Process Step 19 - Position of shop
- 18) The Choice Process Step 20 - Position of back door and rental space
References
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