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Building components from secondary use
1972-1977
Project
File related to the projects of the Minimum Cost Housing Group about building components made from consumers waste between 1972 and 1975, including the Maison Lessard project, in 1975, and the publication "Use it Again, Sam" based on these projects. The material in this file was produced between 1972 and 1977. The file contains textual records, predominantly dummies for the publications, photographs of the construction of the Maison Lessard and photographs of consumer waste transformed into building components. The file also includes copies of the publication "Use it Again, Sam" 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 in English.
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Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Use It Again, Sam!" about an investigation into the re-design of consumer containers for re-use as building components untaken in 1974.
1 book(s)
Bound volume of electrophotographic print on paper
book: 28,2 × 21,8 × 0,5 cm (11 1/8 × 8 9/16 × 3/16 in.)
Bound volume of 60 pages.
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
149-002-04
Objects that have been catalogued:
1 photograph(s)
Gelatin silver print on paper
sheet: 20,4 × 25,5 cm (8 1/16 × 10 1/16 in.)
labelled - on the back, c.: "Finishing touches being given to the completed structure of Maison Lessard" inscribed - by an unknown hand, on the back, in graphite, c.: "76%"
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
149-005-12
Objects that have been catalogued:
Photograph and an eveloppe that was containing the photograph.
1 photograph(s)
Gelatin silver print on paper
sheet: 28,2 × 21,6 cm (11 1/8 × 8 1/2 in.)
labelle - on the back, c.: "A LOW COST GARBAGE BAG SOLAR WATER HEATER"
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
149-005-16
Objects that have been catalogued:
Group consists of two copies of the Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Use it Again, Sam" about building components from secondary use.
2 book(s)
Bound volume of electrophotographic print on paper
book: 21,5 × 16,6 × 0,4 cm (8 7/16 × 6 9/16 × 3/16 in.)
Bound (stapled) volume of 60 pages.
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
149-003-21
Group consists of four copies of the Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Use it Again, Sam" about building components from secondary use.
4 book(s)
Bound volume of electrophotographic print on paper
book: 28 × 22,3 × 0,4 cm (11 × 8 3/4 × 3/16 in.)
Bound volumes of 60 pages.
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
149-003-20
Group consists of a dummy for the Mininum Cost Housing Group's publication "Use it Again, Sam" about building components from secondary use.
1 textual record(s)
Electrophotographic print on paper mounted on paper; typescript on paper mounted on paper; ink on paper mounted 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
149-003-22
Group consists of pages for the dummy of the Mininum Cost Housing Group's publication "Use it Again, Sam" with photographs and schemes.
1 textual record(s)
Electrophotographic print on paper; gelatin silver print on paper mounted on paper
sheets: 28 × 21,7 cm (11 × 8 9/16 in.)
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
149-003-23
Group consists of photographs for the Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Use it Again, Sam" including a photograph of the "Summer House" project of a house built with reused bottles and a photograph of two bottles. The group also includes an eveloppe that was containing the photographs.
2 photograph(s)
Gelatin silver print on paper
sheets: 12,7 × 17,7 cm (5 × 6 15/16 in.)
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
149-005-13
Group consists of photographs for the Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Use it Again, Sam", including a photograph of a fiber glass mold used for making the interlocking gallon bottles and a photograph of an gallon bottle and a gallon built-a-bottle, bottle made with reused material. The group includes also the enveloppe that was containing the photographs.
1 photograph(s)
Gelatin silver print on paper
sheet (smallest): 8,1 × 12,9 cm (3 3/16 × 5 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
149-005-14
Group consists of photographs for the Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Use it Again, Sam" including a photograph of hands holding two bottles of reused materials and a view of Middle East housing built from recycled doors, windows and other urban scrap.
1 photograph(s)
Gelatin silver print on paper; gelatin silver print on paper mounted on paper
sheet (smallest): 8,5 × 12,7 cm (3 3/8 × 5 in.) sheet (largest): 21,6 × 28,2 cm (8 1/2 × 11 1/8 in.)
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
149-005-15
Group consists of photographs of the Maison Lessard project during the construction of the house, including some used for the publication "Use it Again, Sam".
1 photograph(s)
Gelatin silver print on paper
sheet (smallest): 9 × 12,7 cm (3 9/16 × 5 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
149-005-17
Objects that have been catalogued:
Group consists of photographs for the Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Use it Again, Sam" about building components made from secondary use, including photographs of bottles made from recycled materials and photographs of the fabrication process for the bottles.
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
149-005-18
Group consists of a dummy for the Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Use it Again, Sam" about building components from secondary use.
1 textual record(s)
Electrophotographic print on paper mounted on paper; electrophotographic 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
149-007-02
Group consists of two sets of aluminium offset plates for the offset printing of the Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Use it again, Sam" about building components from secondary use.
1 printing plate(s)
Ink on aluminium sheet
plate: 40 × 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
149-008-03
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