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A competition for low cost housing (50 m2 initial), we proposed to transcend the depressing idea of “social housing” to motivate the idea of a diverse neighborhood.
A neighborhood part of the city, suborganized in different patio vicinities, where the house relates to a specific place, and of course to the one of the neighbors.
It’s up to them how they get along to appropriate it:a potential miracle or a disaster.
The second step is that inhabitants own a house in a 10mx10m plot they could adapt new programs:an opportunity to transcend poverty.
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Since the required dimensions where so reduced and strict, typologies where brought down to basics, but strategically situated on the plot to promote the new uses and additions without compromising spatial quality.
The construction system is based on a concrete “domino” structure filled with recycled refractory bricks from the misuse of cement furnaces.
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Name: The Patio Vicinity
Project: Competition Housing and City
Year: 2007
Location: La Serena, Chile
Status: 3° Prize
Housing Surface: 50 m2
Structure: Concrete
Materiality: Recycled Refractary Bricks, Glass
Architect: Juan Pablo Corvalán / Supersudaka
Team: Gabriel Vergara, Jaime Pavez,
Miguel Angel Reyes
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Hi
Just want to say I Looooove your work! I am an Architect working in London, UK and discovered your work through the Coolhunter website. Very inspiring! Beautiful!
Jaco
Hola,
hay conceptos q rescato de tu diseño. La vecindad me parece una romantica y a la vez concreta idea para concebir el barrio, usando el patio como nexo para hacer comunidad, sin embargo creo que abandona ciertos detalles tu diseño, detalles no menor como por ejemplo lo dificultoso que puede llegara ser subir la escalera pricnipal de acceso a la vivienda para un anciano o un discapacitado (tambien son parte de la ciudad). Tambien creo que la distribucion interior de la vivienda que propones no es la más favorable.
en fin, sólo criticas constructivas.
saludos.
k.