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Self-Sufficient Habitable Low-Cost House
1972-1977
Project
File related to the Ecol House project, a self-sufficient habitable low-cost house by the Minimum Cost House Group, built in spring and summer 1972, and the publication "Ecol Operation: Ecology + Building + Common Sense" related to the project. The material in this file was produced between 1972 and 1977. The file contains textual records, predominantly dummies for the publication, and photographs of the Ecol House. The file also includes copies of the publications "Ecol Operation: Ecology + Building + Common Sense" (including a French translation) and printing plates.
Materiel in this project series was kept in its original order during processing.
Montréal Island of Montréal Québec Canada
The documents are predominantly in English and some in French.
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Group includes plans (originals and reproduction) for the self-sufficient house to be built for demonstration at the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements, in Vancouver 1976.
1 File
Island of Montréal Québec Canada
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
149-012-008
Objects that have been catalogued:
1 flat(s)
Flat on acetate vinyl sheet
sheet: 29,9 × 23 cm (11 3/4 × 9 1/16 in.)
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
149-002-06
Objects that have been catalogued:
1 flat(s)
Flat on acetate vinyl sheet
sheet: 29,9 × 23 cm (11 3/4 × 9 1/16 in.)
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
149-002-07
Objects that have been catalogued:
1 negative(s)
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
149-002-08
Objects that have been catalogued:
1 photograph(s)
Gelatin silver print on paper
sheet: 20,6 × 25,3 cm (8 1/8 × 9 15/16 in.)
inscribed - by an unknown hand, in black ink, l.c.: "P.13 B [circled]" inscribed - by an unknown hand, in black ink, l.c.: "x34 PICAS" stamped - on the back, l.r.: "MINIMUM COST HOUSING GROUP / SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE / MCGILL UNIVERSITY" stamped - on the back, l.r.: "ASBESTOS PRODUCER"
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
149-002-09
Objects that have been catalogued:
1 photograph(s)
Gelatin silver print on paper
sheet: 22,7 × 20,5 cm (8 15/16 × 8 1/16 in.)
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
149-002-10
Objects that have been catalogued:
Photograph of the members of the Minimum Cost Housing Group at the Ecol House, including Vikram Bhatt and Alvaro Ortega.
1 photograph(s)
Gelatin silver print on paper
sheet: 20,4 × 25,6 cm (8 1/16 × 10 1/16 in.)
inscribed - by an unknown hand, on the back, in black ink, u.r.: "3/0/2/75" numbered - on the back, in bleu or purple ink, c.: "50"
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
149-002-11
Objects that have been catalogued:
1 photograph(s)
Gelatin silver print on paper
sheet: 25,5 × 20,4 cm (10 1/16 × 8 1/16 in.)
stamped - on a label affixed on the back, c.: "Ecol under construction / MINIMUM COST HOUSING GROUP / SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE / MCGILL UNIVERSITY".
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
149-002-12
Objects that have been catalogued:
1 photograph(s)
Gelatin silver print on paper
sheet: 17 × 11,9 cm (6 11/16 × 4 11/16 in.)
inscribed - by an unknown hand, on the back, in blue ink, t.: "Cooker developed by / Brace Research Institute" inscribed and stamped - by the photographer?, on the back, in blue ink, c.: "Please credit photographs / by / DIMANCHE magasine / NUMÉRO 53 / DATE 31 déc / PAGE 9 PHOTO 4" inscribed - on the back, in blue ink, c.: "use of solar energy / for cooking - / Sulphur House - built / by Minimum Cost Housing Group / Mcgill University - Montréal"
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
149-002-13
Objects that have been catalogued:
1 contact sheet(s)
Gelatin silver print on paper
sheet: 18,3 × 18,7 cm (7 3/16 × 7 3/8 in.)
numbered - by an unknown hand, in blue ink, u.c.: "2 [circled]" numbered - by an unknown hand, in blue ink, l.l.: "3 [circled]" inscribed - by an unknown hand, on the back, in black ink, c. numbered - by an unknown hand, on the back, in blue ink, c.r.: "#3 [circled]"
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
149-002-14
Objects that have been catalogued:
1 contact sheet(s)
Gelatin silver print on paper
sheet: 18,1 × 25,1 cm (7 1/8 × 9 7/8 in.)
numbered - by an unknown hand, on the back, in graphite, u.r.: "860 / 15"
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
149-002-15
Objects that have been catalogued:
1 contact sheet(s)
Gelatin silver print on paper
sheet (irreg.): 18 × 24,8 cm (7 1/16 × 9 3/4 in.)
numbered - by an unknown hand, on the back, in graphite, u.r.: "860 / 13"
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
149-002-16
Objects that have been catalogued:
1 photograph(s)
Gelatin silver print on paper
sheet: 8,9 × 9 cm (3 1/2 × 3 9/16 in.)
inscribed - by an unknown hand, in black ink, l.c.: "x 37 PICAS" stamped - on the back, l.c.: "MINIMUM COST HOUSING GROUP / SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE / MCGILL UNIVERSITY" stamped - on the back, c.: "ASBESTOS PRODUCER" inscribed - by an unknown hand, on the back, in red ink, u.l.: "A [circled in blue ink]"
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
149-002-17
Objects that have been catalogued:
1 photograph(s)
Gelatin silver print on paper
sheet: 20,4 × 25,4 cm (8 1/16 × 10 in.)
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
149-002-18
Objects that have been catalogued:
1 photograph(s)
Gelatin silver print on paper
sheet: 20,4 × 25,3 cm (8 1/16 × 9 15/16 in.)
numbered - by an unknown hand, on the back, in blue ink, c.: "4" inscribed - by an unknown hand, on the back, in red coloured pencil, u.l.: "McGill"
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
149-002-19
Objects that have been catalogued:
1 photograph(s)
Electrophotographic print on paper
sheet: 20,3 × 24,5 cm (8 × 9 5/8 in.)
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
149-002-20
Objects that have been catalogued:
1 contact sheet(s)
Gelatin silver print on paper
sheet (irreg.): 18,3 × 25 cm (7 3/16 × 9 13/16 in.)
numbered - by an unknown hand, the back, in graphite, u.r.: "860 / 10"
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
149-002-21
Objects that have been catalogued:
1 contact sheet(s)
Gelatin silver print on paper
sheet: 18,3 × 25 cm (7 3/16 × 9 13/16 in.)
numbered - by an unknown hand, on the back, in graphite, u.r.: "860 / 2"
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
149-002-22
Objects that have been catalogued:
1 photograph(s)
Gelatin silver print on paper mounted on paper
composition: 21,8 × 28 cm (8 9/16 × 11 in.) sheet: 16,6 × 24,4 cm (6 9/16 × 9 5/8 in.)
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
149-003-07
Objects that have been catalogued:
Group consists of the original layout for the Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Ecol Operation: Ecology + Building + Common Sense" by Alvaro Ortega, Witold Rybcznki, Samir Ayad, Wajid Ali and Arthur Acheson, about the project of a self-sufficient habitable low-cost house untaken in 1972.
1 textual record(s)
Typescript on paper; gelatine silver print on paper mounted on paper; typescript on paper and gelatin silver print on paper mounted on paper; felt-tip pen on paper
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
149-001-01
Objects that have been catalogued:
Group consists of a dummy for the Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Ecol Operation: Ecology + Building + Common Sense" about the project of a self-sufficient habitable low-cost house.
1 textual record(s)
Typescript on paper; typescript on paper mounted on paper; electrophotographic print on paper; ink on paper; ink on paper mounted on typescript on paper
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
149-003-04
Group of 2 documents that consists of a letter, and its enveloppe, to Maureen Anderson of the Minimum Cost Housing Group from Philippa Thomson from Thames & Hudson Ltd. about a loan of documents for a publication entitled "Green Architecture".
1 textual record(s)
Typescript and ink on paper
sheet (smallest): 21,6 × 26,2 cm (8 1/2 × 10 5/16 in.) sheet (largest): 30 × 21,1 cm (11 13/16 × 8 5/16 in.)
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
149-003-05
Group consists of two copies of the book "Ecol Operation: Ecology + Building + Common Sense" by the Mininum Cost Housing Group.
1 book(s)
Bound volume of electrophotographic print on paper
book: 27,7 × 21,5 × 1 cm (10 7/8 × 8 7/16 × 3/8 in.)
Bound volumes of 128 pages.
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
149-003-06
Group consists of a dummy for the Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Ecol Operation: Ecology + Building + Common Sense" about the project of a self-sufficient habitable low-cost house. The group includes a dummy of the french translation of the book.
1 textual record(s)
Typescript on paper; electrostati print on paper
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
The documents are in English and in French.
149-003-08
Group consists of photographs of the Ecol House for the Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Ecol House: Ecology + Building + Common Sense" including photographs of the construction of the house, photographs of Arthur Echeson and his wife living in the house during the demonstration phase and photographs of various devices and modular components of Ecol House development by the Mininum Cost Housing Group.
1 photographic material(s)
Gelatin silver print on paper (photographs and contact sheets); negatives
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
149-005-01
Group consists of photographs for the Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Ecol Operation: Ecology + Building + Common Sense", including a photograph of a group of man building the base of the wall and a photograph of three man installing a window on Ecol House. The group also includes an enveloppe that was containing the photographs.
1 photograph(s)
Gelatin silver print on paper
sheet (smallest): 9 × 9 cm (3 9/16 × 3 9/16 in.) sheet (largest): 20,4 × 26 cm (8 1/16 × 10 1/4 in.)
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
149-005-02
Group consists of photographs of Ecol House, including a photograph of Buckminster Fuller during a visit of the Ecol House, a photograph of the interlocking sulphur concrete wall of the house, and photographs of Arthur Acheson and his wife living in Ecol House.
7 photograph(s)
Gelatin silver print on paper; chromogenic colour print on paper
sheet (smallest): 8,9 × 13,2 cm (3 1/2 × 5 3/16 in.) sheet (largest): 20,6 × 25,6 cm (8 1/8 × 10 1/16 in.)
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
149-005-03
Group consists of photographs of the Ecol House, including a photograph of solar still for producing drinking water from saline and polluted water, a photograph of the Ecol House in construction and once completed.
1 photograph(s)
Gelatin silver print on paper
sheet (smallest): 20,6 × 20,4 cm (8 1/8 × 8 1/16 in.) sheet (largest): 20,4 × 25,5 cm (8 1/16 × 10 1/16 in.)
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
149-005-04
Group consists of two sets of aluminium offset plates for the offset printing of the Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Ecol Operation: Ecology + Building + Common Sense", including a French translation, about the project of a self-sufficient habitable low-cost house untaken in 1972.
1 printing plate(s)
Ink on aluminium sheet
plate: 39,4 × 25,5 cm
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
149-009-01
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