Title & Author:

Elemental : manual de vivienda incremental y diseño participativo = incremental housing and participatory design manual / Alejandro Aravena, Andrés Iacobelli.

Publication:

Description:

509 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 24 cm

Notes:
On the occasion of the 13th Architecture Biennale Venice, August 29 - November 25, 2012.
Elemental timeline -- What's the point?: The problem of social housing in a few words : Half a good house [does not equal] one small house ; Housing as investment and not as mere social expense -- Principles of elemental : The relevance of the housing problem ; Origins and fundamentals ; What is elemental? -- Framework: constraints and the rules of the game : Housing policy until 2001 ; The existing offer: three typologies ; Housing policy 2001-2008 -- Elemental's first case: Quinta Monroy in Iquique : Assignment: X = 100f x US$7,500 x 30 m² / 0.5 ha ; What was available in the market? ; Elemental's proposal ; The architectural project ; The project's socialization ; The proposal's construction ; The occupancy of the houses ; Eighteen months later ... ; Value increases -- Elemental's worldwide architectural competition : When proving the point is not enough ; The equation to be solved ; The results -- The 7 winning projects : Elemental Antofagasta ; Elemental Copiapó ; Elemental Valparaíso ; Elemental Renca ; Elemental Chiguayante ; Elemental Temuco ; Elemental Valdivia ; Progress diagrams -- New projects : New rules of the game: the 2005 housing policy ; New projects -- Socialization lessons: recommendations for a participatory design : Phase A: Design ; Phase B: Bidding ; Phase C: Construction ; Phase D: Habitation -- Structural lessons : Structure for the final scenario (not just the initial one) ; Prefabrication and seismic isolation -- Architectural lessons: design manual for housing's financial appreciation : Good location within the city ; Harmonious growth over time ; Collective space for the extended family ; Building the difficult half of the house first ; Middle-class DNA.
In Spanish and English.

Summary:

What began as an academic initiative to improve the quality of life of poor strata of the population has meanwhile become a professional "do tank" offering services that cover the entire spectrum of urban development. Alejandro Aravena (*1967 in Santiago de Chile) founded Elemental in 2001 in his hometown with the goal of alleviating social deprivation directly instead of hoping for a balance of income relations. This publication documents the social activity and history of the international architectural team and sheds light on its financing strategies, for example through participative building.0Exhibition: 13th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice, Italy (29.8.-25.11.2012).

ISBN:

3775734600 (pbk. in sl.cs.)
9783775734608 (pbk. in sl.cs.)

Subject:

Elemental (Firm : Santiago, Chile)
Low-income housing Chile Design and construction.
Architectural firms Chile.
Housing Chile.
Architecture, Domestic Chile.
Housing, Cooperative Chile.
Agences d'architecture Chili.
Logement coopératif Chili.
Social housing Architecture Cile 21st century.
Architecture and Planning.
Architectural firms
Architecture, Domestic
Housing
Housing, Cooperative
Sozialer Wohnungsbau
Stadtentwicklung
Bostäder.
Kollektivhus.
Arkitektkontor.
Chile.

Added entries:

Aravena Mori, Alejandro.
Iacobelli, Andrés.
Elemental (Firm : Santiago, Chile)

Incremental housing and participatory design manual
Manual de vivienda incremental y diseño participativo

Holdings:

Location: Library main 283112
Call No.: BIB 221130
Status: Available

Location: Library main slipcase 284348
Call No.: BIB 221130
Status: Available