Max Borges del Junco: Pioneer of Mass-Produced Timber Houses in Cuba
Keywords:
Havana, portable house, timber house, mass-produced house, industrialization, Max Borges del JuncoAbstract
The mass-produced timber houses and the self-construction business, as solution to alleviate the acute housing problem in Havana of the first post-war years is practically no mentioned in the literature that studies the housing of the period. The present work aims to characterize a type of timber house very popular in those years, became known as the portable house, prefabricated in large construction yards of continuous production and transported to the assembly sites in the form of numbered pieces. The analytical- synthetic, as well as the historical- logical method was used to process the information and formulate the conclusions. The investigation revealed that the prefabricated frames were destined not only for economic housing models, but also for high-specification ones. At the same time, confirmed the leading role played by the architect-engineer Max Borges del Junco in the development of the industrialization of timber construction in Cuba.
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