QUINCHA HOUSING FOR THE HIGHLANDS ASSIGNMENT

For this assignment in the Construction I course, we were asked to design a house with a construction method native to the Peruvian Andes, in my case, I used the Quincha

CONSTRUCTION METHOD: QUINCHA

Regarding the use of quincha, I used quincha filled with braided cane, and mud mixed with straw for the cladding. The window openings and doors are inside the wood panel modules. As for the water and drainage pipes of the bathroom, and the electrical installations, they must remain on the outside, and are tied with wire, also, in the smooth parts of the modules I placed the mesh, as in the column of the bathroom

The roofs are sloped and are made of calaminas (construction material, composed of a mixture of cement with asbestos, mainly used in the form of corrugated sheets to cover the roof), because in areas where this type of housing is used, the weather tends to be cold and there are recurrent rains, so the sloping roofs help the water does not stagnate and avoids contact with the quincha. This construction method provides thermal inertia, which means that it retains the heat of the day to be released at night when temperatures drop, allowing greater comfort for users, who mostly live in rural areas, and the quincha is an accessible method because it is composed of natural materials that are easy to find in nearby areas