Go Back
Peru Project – Fourteen Low Cost Houses
1971 to 1975Construction of one group of fourteen (14) houses, part of the first experimental pilot project, built together with the schemes of the other twelve architectural firms which participated in the international PREVI competition.
Contents
-
The Peru Project - Fourteen Low Cost Houses: Sketches
01/01/1971
A schematic plan of the main pedestrian street, formed by the house fronts and their entrances.
-
The Peru Project - Fourteen Low Cost Houses: Preliminary Design Drawings
01/01/1971
An axonometric drawing depicting the spatial organization of one neighborhood cell as it was built.
-
The Peru Project - Fourteen Low Cost Houses: Construction Drawings - Plot Plan
30/09/1971
A large drawing of the neighborhood cell with 14 lots, as they were laid out and built; with emphasis given on the public easements formed by the house volumes. Includes a table with the lot areas and the constructed areas.
SEE ALL Drawings
-
Vivienda Peru, Investigacion y experiencias: Proyecto Experimental de Vivienda PREVI
01/12/1975
Official report published by the Peruvian Republic’s Ministry of Housing and Construction, presenting the experimental projects PREVI. They were organized as three different pilot projects, one being the PREVI international competition, focused on the development of new materials and construction ...
-
The Experimental Housing project (PREVI), Lima _Design and Technology in a New Neighborhood; excerpt from the book
01/01/2015
27-page excerpt from the book by Peter Land, which includes the Table of Contents of the book, its Introduction, and a summary of the PREVI international competition, with selected drawings and photographs of the realized pilot projects.
-
The Peru Project - Fourteen Low Cost Houses: Photographs of drawings
01/01/1971
Axonometric drawing of the spatial organization of the 14-house constructed prototype cluster.
-
The Peru Project - Fourteen Low Cost Houses: Photographs of drawings
01/01/1971
Three drawings of the 14-house constructed prototype cluster: Plot Plan & Summary of Area; Ground Floor Plan; 2nd Floor Plan.
-
The Peru Project - Fourteen Low Cost Houses: Photographs of drawings
01/01/1971
Elevation drawings of the 14-house constructed prototype cluster, in two different settings.
SEE ALL Photographs
References
-
Development of first Patterns and Pattern Languages
The first patterns were developed in 1967 by a group of people working together with Christopher Alexander in the Center for Environmental Structure. Between 1968 and 1976 the first pattern languages were developed and tested for particular projects undertaken by ...
-
Project Specific Pattern Languages - Specificity and Generality of Pattern Languages
A shared pattern language in a project acts as the generic system which gives the power to the smaller local acts to form a whole. Within the process of making a project, every individual act of building differentiates space. However, ...
-
Houses Generated by Patterns
1969
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 ...
-
A Pattern Language
1977
“A Pattern Language” is the second volume of “The Center for Environmental Structure Series” on architecture published by Oxford University Press. You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to ...