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
Isabel Zapata Alegría, Universidad de Chile
Académica del Instituto de la Vivienda, Arquitecto, Esp. en Vivienda Social y Diplomada en Asentamiento Humanos en la U. De Chile.
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Zapata Alegría, I. (2003). Reconstruction Program in Punitaqui –El Toro. Revista INVI, 18(47). https://doi.org/10.5354/0718-8358.2003.62237
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