Inclus dans:

• Fonds: Fonds Minimum Cost Housing Group , 1947, 1970-2012
•    Série(s): Housing Research Projects, 1970-2011

Personnes et institutions:

• McGill University. Minimum Cost Housing Group (archive creator)

Titre:

Housing Research Projects

Date:

1970-2011

Niveau de description archivistique:
Series

Collation:

• 2.36 l.m. of textual records
  approx. 11010 photographic material
  306 printing plates
  260 drawings
  39 books
  33 artefacts
  17 panels
  8 sketchbooks
  2 models
  1 CD-R

Présentation du contenu:
Series related to the Minimum Cost Housing Group projects and publications, including the publications known as the "The Problem is" series about low-cost housing between 1971 and 1978 and all the other publications related to projects from 1984 to 2004. This series documents publications about the projects of prefabricated houses for the developing countries, a self-sufficient habitable low-cost house, low-cost sanitation systems, sulphur concrete for low-cost housing, building components from secondary use, rooftop gardens and urban agriculture, domestic water saving devices, human settlement developement or improvement in developping countries and in Native American communities. The material in this series was produced between 1970 and 2011. The file contains textual records, mainly dummies for the publications, office records and reports, photographic material related to the projects, copies of the publications, a few drawings and plans related to the housing project and samples of the sulphur bricks developed by the Minimum Cost Housing Group.

Numéro de référence:

AP149.S1

Mode de classement:
The series is arranged chronologically by year of project

Langue et écriture des documents:

• English
• Spanish
• French
• Mandarin

Contient:

• AP149.S1.1971.PR01, Prefabricated Houses for the Developing Countries, 1971 or before
• AP149.S1.1972.PR01, Self-Sufficient Habitable Low-Cost House, 1972-1977
• AP149.S1.1972.PR02, Sulphur Concrete for Low-Cost Housing, 1973-1975
• AP149.S1.1972.PR03, Building components from secondary use, 1972-1977
• AP149.S1.1973.PR01, Low-Cost Sanitation Systems, 1970-1978
• AP149.S1.1976.PR01, Rooftop gardens, between 1974 and 1976
• AP149.S1.1978.PR01, Domestic water saving devices, 1975-1978
• AP149.S1.1984.PR01, Aranya township post-occupancy study, 1984-2002
• AP149.S1.1986.PR01, Study of human settlements, 1985-1993
• AP149.S1.1988.PR01, Housing development project in Sichuan, 1986-1994
• AP149.S1.1990.PR01, Contemporary Architecture in India, 1986-1991
• AP149.S1.1995.PR01, Urban upgrading proposals in Mexico, 1995
• AP149.S1.2000.PR01, Gender approach on housing in Native American’s communities, 1998-2002
• AP149.S1.2004.PR01, Urban agriculture demonstration, 2003-2010
• AP149.S1.2004.PR02, North American Sustainability, Housing and Community Consortium Student Exchange, 2004-2007