Abstract

BASTIDAS, María Belén Granja  and  CUENCA, Marlown. The chapters that ELEMENTAL forgot: informal logics for the design of social housing. Estoa [online]. 2020, vol.9, n.18, pp.224-254. ISSN 1390-9274.  https://doi.org/10.18537/est.v009.n018.a12.

The short durability of state social housing projects in suitable functional conditions, gradually replaced by self-constructed systems, even in emblematic projects such as Previ Lima or ELEMENTAL, leads us to reflect, what parameters are those that the designed projects have not been able to solve? We believe that there are certain logics of self-constructed neighborhoods that allow a greater adaptation of these to the social, economic and spatial conditions required by popular sectors. In this article we compare the ideal parameters used to design the ELEMENTAL proposals with the real effects of the Quinta Monroy project (15 years later) and self-constructed neighborhoods in Quito-Ecuador, in order to identify some aspects that could not be solved by Aravena: the chapters that you forgot to ELEMENTAL.As a conclusion we found that the incorporation of productive spaces, in addition to the individual lot system that allows both spatial growth and increase of housing units in a multidirectional sense are fundamental even for collective development because it encourages neighborhood interaction, self-regulation and diversity of collective spaces and applications. We believe that these parameters incorporated into the architectural design will allow it to enter the logics of informal operation, instead of imposing new rules of the game.

Keywords : Social housing; informality; open lot; interaction; ELEMENTAL; Quinta Monroy.

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