McGill University. Minimum Cost Housing Group (archive creator)
Title
Urban upgrading proposals in Mexico
Dates of creation
1995
Level of archival description
Project
Extent and Medium
0.03 l.m. of textual records
16 panels
8 drawings
6 sketchbooks
Scope and Content
This project series documents Minimum Cost Housing Group's project a proposal for urban upgrading in La Esperanza, Mexico in collaboration with the municipal gouvernment of Zihuatanejo, in 1995 and 1996. The project for upgrading popular housing, is also known as the "Fingers of Hope" (in Spanish "Los dedos de la esperanza).Included in the project series are documents related to the production of presentation panels for the proposal of urban upgrading and the final version of the presentation panels with photographs and houses plans.
Title: Production of presentation panels for the La Esperanza project in Mexico
Dates of creation: 1995
Form: textual records
Catalogued items within this file 0
People:
McGill University. Minimum Cost Housing Group (archive creator)
Quantity / Object type:
1 File
Extent and Medium:
0,01 l.m. of textual records
Location:
Island of Montréal
Québec
Canada
Credit line:
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
Title: Correspondence on the Urban Upgrading project in La Esperanza, Mexico
Dates of creation: 1996
Form: textual records
Catalogued items within this file 1
People:
McGill University. Minimum Cost Housing Group (archive creator)
Vikram Bhatt (creator)
Description:
Also contains a report on the project included in the correpsondence and the printed slides of a Power Point presentation.
Quantity / Object type:
1 File
Extent and Medium:
0,02 l.m. of textual records
Location:
Island of Montréal
Québec
Canada
Credit line:
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
Title: Presenation drawings for the Casa de Estralla for Urban Upgrading project in La Esperanza, Mexico
Dates of creation: 1995
Form: drawings
Catalogued items within this file 1
People:
McGill University. Minimum Cost Housing Group (archive creator)
Vikram Bhatt (creator)
Description:
The group also includes two copies of the final version of the cover for the publication "Fingers of hope: Los Dedos de La Esperenza".
Quantity / Object type:
1 File
Extent and Medium:
8 drawings
2 textual records
Location:
Island of Montréal
Québec
Canada
Credit line:
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
Title: Presentation panels for the housings projects for the Urban Upgrading project in La Esperanza, Mexico
Dates of creation: ca. 1995
Form: drawings
Catalogued items within this file 26
People:
McGill University. Minimum Cost Housing Group (archive creator)
Vikram Bhatt (creator)
Quantity / Object type:
1 File
Extent and Medium:
16 panels
Dimensions:
56,2 x 44 x 0,2 cm
Location:
Island of Montréal
Québec
Canada
Credit line:
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
Presentation panel with painting of a life scene and photographs of families in La Esperanza for the Urban Upgrading project La Esperanza, in Zihuatanejo, Mexico
Presentation panel with floor plan, elevations, and section of Casa de Vicki Leiba for the Urban Upgrading project La Esperanza, in Zihuatanejo, Mexico
Presentation panel with painting of a street view, pages of a sketchbook, and photographs a house with its resident for the Urban Upgrading project in La Esperanza, Mexico
Presentation panel with pages of a sketchbook with landscape rendering and photographs of houses surrounding landscape for the Urban Upgrading project La Esperanza, in Zihuatanejo, Mexico
Presentation panel with painted portrait of a woman, pages of a sketchbook, and photographs of existing houses for the Urban Upgrading project La Esperanza, in Zihuatanejo, Mexico
Presentation panel with floor plan, section, and elevations of Casa de Jose Antonio El Carpintero for the Urban Upgrading project La Esperanza, in Zihuatanejo, Mexico
Presentation panel with sketchbook pages, and photographs of a partially destroyed house for the Urban Upgrading project La Esperanza, in Zihuatanejo, Mexico
Presentation panel with painted rendering of a house, sketchbook pages, and photographs of the house with its residents for the Urban Upgrading project La Esperanza, in Zihuatanejo, Mexico
Presentation panel with floor plan, section, and elevation of Casa Mercedes y Santo for the Urban Upgrading project La Esperanza, in Zihuatanejo, Mexico
Presentation panel with sketchbook page and photographs of houses and its residents for the Urban Upgrading project La Esperanza, in Zihuatanejo, Mexico
Presentation panel with painted rendering of a house, pages of a sketchbook, and photographs of a house and its residents for the Urban Upgrading project La Esperanza, in Zihuatanejo, Mexico
Presentation panel with page of a sketchbook, painting rendering of a house, and photographs of houses and a dog for the Urban Upgrading project La Esperanza, in Zihuatanejo, Mexico
Title: Sketchbooks of a travel in Mexico, possibly related to the Urban upgrading proposals in Mexico
Dates of creation: ca. 1996
Form: drawings
Catalogued items within this file 0
People:
McGill University. Minimum Cost Housing Group (archive creator)
Quantity / Object type:
1 File
Extent and Medium:
6 sketchbooks
Dimensions:
56,2 x 44 x 0,2 cm
Physical Description:
Group separated in three folders.
Location:
Island of Montréal
Québec
Canada
Credit line:
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
