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Presentación de Andres Iacobelli, Director, Elemental Copec / UC Doing Tank, ChileTRANSCRIPT
2000
2002
2003
Identify the EquationHarvard / UC
Fondef / Conicyt Funds
World Competition
AntofagastaCopiapoSantiagoValparaisoConcepcionTemucoValdivia
Quinta Monroy, IquiqueChileBarrio.100 units
New Projects
New PartnershipsTecho para Chile + Billiton Mining Co.10.000 units x year
Lo Barnechea / Juan Pablo II San BernardoLo EspejoRenca 1.000 units
PatentsSeismic isolators/ E-House x Retailers
The CITY as equity source400 fairsMetropoitan PromenadeNew Center for Santiago: 2 Million People
ELEMENTAL begins
2005
Is a Doing Tank that ispromoting the city as a
source of equity 2006
Fond
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David Rock
efeller / H
arvard
Fond
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ChileBarrio
Fondef
ChileBarrio
TV 13 / COPEC Chilean Oil
What is our point ?We already know how to produce coverage = Quantity of units. Can we, without reducing quantity, have quality as well ?
Yes.Re-define quality:A house is not a car; it should be able to increase it’s value over time.
Social Housing should be seen as an investment, not as a social expense.
chile 2 million people livng in precarious conditions (15 % of the population)U$ 10 billion of Government Investment in the next 20 years.
latinoamerica 200 milion people livng in precaroius conditions.Caracas 40% , Mexico City 60%U$ ? Billion of investment.
In ELEMENTAL we have identified a set of design conditionsthat if followed, improve the chances of a property to gain value over time, a of a family to abandon poverty.
100.000 vouchers s x year,US$ 500 millon budgetUS$ 7,500 ( to pay x site, infrastructure and architecture)
FRAMEWORK: Housing Policy
Income ( US$ )
“Private Scheme”Gov Subsidy + Family Savings + PRIVATE BANK LOAN
$ 0
US $ 5000
“Competitive Fund”
Gov Subsidy + Family Savings + SELF CONSTRUCTIONApplication by groups with a specific project/site
U$7.500 US$300 No DebtNew Developments
Lot Subdivision /Densification
Used UnitsMobility / Rehabilitation
ARCHITECTURE and URBAN DESIGN
ENGENEERING and BUILDING TECHNOLOGY
COMMUNITY and SOCIAL WORK
Despite very bad living conditions, families had a survival network in the city around them, consisting of jobs, education, health facilities and transportation.
It was highly desireable to maintain that network and radicate the families where they were.
But the problem was that the cost of the site, was 3 times more than what social housing is normally able to afford.
+ good location in the city (close to the opportunity network)
+ introduction of the collective space ( extensive family as an economical and social unit)
+ able to develop harmonically over time( avoid the impoversihment of the neighborehood and of the
house typical of progressive building)
+ middle class DNA(instead of small house give half of a good house)
+ maximum flexibility / minimum technology(voids big enough for decent rooms but small ehpugh to
facilitate low tech expansions)
+ structural design for final scenario
E Q U A T I O N
= all x US$ 7500 x family.(site, services and architecture included)
To do what a family, individually, will never do.
Which are those conditions that can increase the value?
Dense enough to pay for expensive well located sites
20 to 30 families
Conquer the corner of the lot / alternate voids for expansions
72 m2 /4 bedrooms of 3x3, livingof 3x6, bathroom far from entrance,
with tub not shower, parking
3 m.
Partition walls for the final house.
This type is very inefficient in landuse, so the market tries to make land cost as close to zero as possible. Those pieces of land are far away, in the periphery of cities; in this case in a stigmatized town outside Iquique.
If to try resolve the equation we use 1 house = 1 family = 1 lot…
32 units
We fit just 32 units
But even if we had enough money to pay for this site, this isolated type is unable to take some responsibility on selfconstruction (50% of the final built
environment at least). The given units are normally swallowed by expansions producing a very bad urban environment, once again.
If we use a more dense typeLot width = House width = Room width…
60 units
The problem with this Row House type, is that whenever families expand, they block previous rooms’access to ventilation and light, and compromise privacy.What we get then, instead of efficiency in landuse, is overcrowding.
We fit 60 families.We do better, eventhough still not enough.
100 units
If we build in height…
We fit all the 100 families
But ( besides the fact that families threatened us with a hunger strike, if we even consider giving these blocks as a solution), building in height blocks expansions.
Alfonso Montero
Tomas Cortese
So, instead of doing the best possible $7.500 dollar unit and repeating it a 100 times, we went for best possible $750.000 dollar building which could host a 100 families and their growth in time.But we knew, buildings block expansions…That’s true except in the first and last floor; So, what we did was a $750.000 dollar building that had just the first and last floor. With 2 properties one on top of the other, we doubled the efficiency of landuse, before even ging into the design.
So, this First-and-Last-floor-Building, had a 6x6 meters House in a 9x9 meter Lot in the 1st. floor. With an horizontal partition wall on top of them Then 3 duplex apartments, 6 meters wide each. With direct access to the collective courtyard. So this is what we gave in the stage Zero And this is how we expect it to be occupied, arriving up to 72 m2 in the final stage, both the House and the Apartment .
1. Dry automatic unarticulated Boxes and Formsto counterbalance selfconstruction
2. Alternate voids avoid overdose of uncertain3. Loos/Tzara windows to achieve scale4. Square lot inefficient but flexible to rotate
The First-and-Last-Floor-Building, wrapped around to form 4 collective courtyards of 20 families eachSquare 9 x 9 m lots for the house, allow to fit better the irregular shape of the site. Form matters.
Meanwhile, families began to be prepared for the new life they were about to begin.They had to begin to think about the new houses, so they were asked to draw and write about…
Juana Zeballos 59 years
PAA Lagos 37 years Sergio Avendaño 59 years
The Houses
The Facades
Expected expansion
The Growth
This is what you normally get while building for $7.500, 45 minutes away from the city, in a stigmatized periphery
For the same money we did this, in the same place where they have lived for the last 30 years, paying 3 times more than what social housing has ever paid for the land.
First 50% = US$ 7,500 Second 50% = US$ 750
US$ 7,500 + US$ 750 = US$ 20,000
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