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Neighborhood of Seventy Low-Cost Houses: Outline of Process for Layout and Construction of Self-help Housing Project in Santa Rosa, Colombia
2 2) Manual.j
26-page “Draft only – Not for distribution” document, with a developed outline of the twenty-two sections of the process for the layout and construction of self-help housing. It describes the organization and responsibilities of the participants, the criteria for the selection of the families and all the specific activities of the various layout and construction processes as well as the cost and construction management. An additional 3-page manual provides a brief description of a vision of the place and an outlined process.
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The Layout Process of Buildings on the Land - Visualization at Full Scale on Site
Each act of building needs to have a positive effect on its surroundings; to complete them, preserve their structure, make them better, by creating strong centers in them and next to them. Each new building is more alive when it ...
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The Sequence of Unfolding - Generative Codes for the Design Process
In architecture, as in other things, the "right" sequence is of vital importance. It is a generative sequence of progressive differentiations, which allow space to unfold in the right order. Each differentiation acts on the product of the previous ...
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Neighborhood of Seventy Low-Cost Houses: Howard's questions on Colombia Process and Howard's fluid thoughts on Colombia Process
22/07/1986
10-page draft document with questions and required clarifications on the twenty two sections of the project process-manual as well as a 6-page section with thoughts on various aspects of the construction management.
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Neighborhood of Seventy Low-Cost Houses: Outline of the twenty-two sections of the project agreement
01/01/1986
27-pages of handwritten notes with initial thoughts and explanatory descriptions of the twenty-two steps to be followed by the project’s process-layout manual. The section-outline includes two versions, one of nineteen steps and the second of twenty-two steps.
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Neighborhood of Seventy Low-Cost Houses: Outlines of sections on construction
01/07/1986
13-page document mostly related to the construction process; special focus has been given to the section that deals with cost control and flexible construction decisions.