198 “Low-cost housing” in Valdivia, X Region, Chile
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https://doi.org/10.3989/ic.2007.v59.i506.510Keywords:
low-cost housing, progressive housing, social housing, minimal housing, mixed construction, flexible urban system, comunitary spaceAbstract
The purpose of the competition as well as the project developed in response to the social, constructive and climate specific conditions of Valdivia, X Region, Chile, is the design and construction of experimental social housing, whose cost, including land and services, would not exceed 7,500 $ per unit. The housing units should be designed in order to grow and to be adapted by owners and should allow for achieving higher urban density as average so to reduce the burden of costs derived from land acquisition and services. The project adopts a three-storey compact typology such as a “big house”, with 2 units on ground floor and 4 duplex on upper floors. The local wood construction tradition and the good level of acceptance of it within the context of Valdivia, bring us to develop a mixed construction system, concrete and wood, which not only is suitable to the geotechnical and seismic conditions of the ground, but also to the economical restrictions and to the requirements of spatial flexibility so necessary when designing a minimal housing unit.
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