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method:earth-cement-interlocking-block-system-mexicaliEarth-Cement Interlocking Block System (Mexicali)
Specially fabricated interlocking blocks used in the Mexicali housing project enabling a smooth unfolding construction sequence without drawings.
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Frameworks (1)
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- Smooth Unfolding of ConstructionimplementsA construction paradigm in which each operation naturally generates the next, producing unique adaptation without complex drawings.
Artifacts (1)
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- Low-cost housing for Mexican families, built with family participation, where Jose Tapia experienced personal change.
Chapters (1)
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- Chapter 16: How Living Process Should Inspire — Continuous Invention of New Materials and TechniquesintroducesThe working unit under analysis; Alexander argues for inventing new construction techniques that support living process and adaptation.
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- Mexicali interlocking block construction sequence generates unique adapted houses requiring no drawingsfinding0.766Demonstration of a complete smooth-unfolding high-tech construction system that achieves adaptation without conventional drawings.
- The property that centers are hooked into their surroundings through intermediate centers that belong ambiguously to both, making it difficult to disentangle the center from its context and creating deeper unification
- Continuous spatial touching where each private space opens directly onto a public space, and vice versa
- State that the heart of architecture lies in forming an interlocking fabric of positive space and solid.
- The three-dimensional intertwining of structural solid elements and spatial voids such that each defines and strengthens the other.
- Large, hand-sawable blocks bonded with polymer glue-mortar; allow hand-fitting to almost any shape.
- A hybrid system combining interior wood post-and-beam for vertical forces with exterior thin concrete shell for horizontal and shear forces.