PROJECTS

PREVI EXPERIMENTAL HOUSING PROJECT

Lima, Peru 1969
designed and built by Christopher Alexander
and his collegues from The Center for Environmental Structure

Finished buildings — The PREVI project (Proyecto experimental de vivienda) was an experimental housing competition which took place in Lima, Peru in 1969. 26 architects were asked to design low-cost housing modules, the favorites of which would then be built into an entire community. All but 2 of the intial prototype buildings were built, including Alexander's.

Finished buildings

Finished buildings

Finished buildings

Finished buildings

Drawings and plans

Drawings and plans

Drawings and plans

Drawings and plans — Drawings and plans – representation of the building materials

Drawings and plans

Drawings and plans

Drawings and plans

Houses Generated by Patterns — Alexander and his collegues wrote a pattern language for the project, which was published in 1969 by CES publishing as Houses Generated by Patterns, now out of print. This is a page from the book, the pattern is "front door bench".

Houses Generated by Patterns — Another page from the book

Archival image

Images of the community

Images of the community

Images of the community

Images of the community

Images of the community

Images of the community

Sketch of an entrance

Images of the community

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