Photograph

The Peru Project – Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Interlocking concrete blocks for mortarless block wall & Composite bamboo/polyurethane foam beams – Photographs of drawings

01/01/1969

Drawing

Photograph of construction details regarding primarily the composite bamboo/foam beam types, and the column cement blocks and capitals.

Content of

Construction Innovation 2 Items

Peru Project - Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Composite bamboo foam beams 1969

Construction System, Bamboo Foam Beam & Plank

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 ...
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

Scientific Research 1 Items

Innovative Construction Systems, Techniques and Materials

One of the main topics of research, included in every building project, was to identify, early on in the design process, the material and techniques of construction. This would re-establish building as an art, and allow rapid shaping and adaptation, ...

Projects 1 Items

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 ...

Visual & Audio Materials 1 Items

Locus Manifesto-exposition: CES presented aspects of the research for a project pattern language, taking into account the uniqueness of its users and need for cost-effective solutions, as implemented in the Peru Project 4 4) Pattern 'Composite Bamboo Foam Beam' from the book 'Houses Generated by Patterns' 30/05/2014

Public Event, Visual, Exhibition Board

Four boards in Science Cabinet #1 of the exhibit were devoted to the Peru project.

Drawings 2 Items