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2006 American Institute of Architects (AIA) Test of Time, Puerto Rico Chapter The House at Breñas Point ( Spanish : Casa de la Punta ; "House at the Point"), designed by Segundo Cardona FAIA, was built in 1978 with the original purpose of serving as a week-end home for a family of six: a couple and their four children, on a site shaped like a ...
Architects are incorporating modern designs into the prefabricated houses of today. Prefab housing should no longer be compared to a mobile home in terms of appearance, but to that of a complex modernist design. [16] There has also been an increase in the use of "green" materials in the construction of these prefab houses.
Levittown, Puerto Rico. An example from house-building illustrates the process of prefabrication. The conventional method of building a house is to transport bricks, timber, cement, sand, steel and construction aggregate, etc. to the site, and to construct the house on site from these materials.
3D-printed homes are created using large concrete 3D printers, and they are typically more affordable than traditionally constructed homes — plus, they’re also built in a sustainable fashion ...
In 2010, Bali exported 98,417 prefabricated houses, but in 2011 the region only exported 5,007 units due to the global economic slowdown that affected a number of export destinations. These Balinese prefab houses are well known for their artistic design and practical value. [25]
Founder (1995) and First Dean of The New School of Architecture-Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico (1995–2006) Publications include Puerto Rico 1900, Turn of the Century Architecture in the Hispanic Caribbean 1890-1930 (1992), [11] and Havana (with Nancy Stout) (1994). [12] Silva Boucher, Blas (1869-1949, Ponce, PR)
The Central Aguirre Historic District, in Aguirre, Salinas, Puerto Rico was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. [1] Following the acquisition of Puerto Rico by the U.S. government in 1898, as a colonial consequence of the Spanish–American War, the town was originally built as a company town by Ford & Co. (no relation to the automobile manufacturer), an American ...
A lot of homes are out of this world -- but this one really looks it. Retired industrial arts teacher Roberto Sanchez Rivera built his home in Ponce, Puerto Rico, to look like a spaceship ...