The concept of "housing" from the perspective of "inhabiting" and its implications for the social scope is stated through a bibliographical discussion which: a) systematizes the most frequent definitions for "housing" in Chile. B) defines "inhabit" based on the statement by Heidegger, Ortega and Morales. Six approaches were detected -object, social value, satisfaction, process, system and life gender- and the context which validates each approach is specified with and implicit management of the specific meaning of the concept. To "inhabit" is synthesized as the "tension" fo the individual and collective being in their way to their plenitude and which manifests itself in constructing - understood as building and cultivating. Since behind the bibliographic discussion there are no essentials related to housing nor positions explicitly connected to "inhabit", a theoretical approach is developed which considers the "natural absence" of housing and provides an account of the gradual articulation of meanings it has acquired in the evolution of human inhabiting: home, lodge, dwelling, primary territory, privileged area for privacy and intimacy and place. From the social point of view it is state that permanent housing developed simultaneously with society - as a human organization - and the city - as a spatial manifestation of the latter. It is concluded that housing is an integrated whole which includes a shared meaning at the social level and that inhabiting does not admit degrees at a personal level but only at a social level since in stating its goals the society defines values and can evaluate -according to degrees- their achievement.
Author Biography
Ana María Rugiero Pérez, Universidad de Chile
Arquitecta, Académica del Instituto de la Vivienda, FAU, UCH.
Rugiero Pérez, A. M. (2000). Theoretical Aspects of Housing in Terms of the Act of Inhabiting. Revista INVI, 15(40). https://doi.org/10.5354/0718-8358.2000.62111
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