This paper deals with the formulation of a housing reconstruction program and the execution of a specific program in EL Toro, Punitaqui IV region, Coquimbo, after the 1997 earthquake. The aim was to motivate a reconstruction process and habitat conditioning. A socio habitat innovative experience was developed in the form of a surroundings microproject with the participation of 16 poor families which had property rights over the land and a basic sanitary unit. The challenge was simply to implement a participatory work methodology, taking into account in the design as well as in the planning stage cultural aspects, labour needs , support to productive activities and the morphological and spatial heritage of the agricultural communities. Consequently a self help program was proposed aiming at satisfying integral inhabiting needs, overcoming the material deficit in housing, increasing life quality through several degrees of family life adaptability to the physic-spatial habitat.
Author Biography
Ricardo Tapia Zarricueta, Universidad de Chile
Arquitecto. Profesor Asistente. Académico del Instituto de la Vivienda. Representante Chileno, Red CYTED XIV.G. “Hábitat en Riesgo”. Alumno Programa Doctorado Convenio F.A.U. U. de Chile- U. Politécnica Superior de Madrid.
Tapia Zarricueta, R. (2003). Housing and Emergency in Disaster Situations Caused by Earthquakes. The 1997 Punitaqui Earthquake, Chile. Revista INVI, 18(47). https://doi.org/10.5354/0718-8358.2003.62236
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