Quinta Monroy en publicacion rusa
ERA 21 | p.16-19 | Rusia | 08/12/2009
Proyectos Elemental Publicados en China
Out Look Magazine | nº91 | p.66-68 | China | 01/11/2009
Quinta Monroy
29/09/2009
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Oficinas de Arquitectos ponen sus fichas en las casas prefabricadas
EL MERCURIO | p. B 4 | CHILE | 21/09/2009
Roberto Angelini explica las razones del fuerte vínculo entre Copec y Elemental
LA TERCERA | p.51 | CHILE | 05/09/2009
El grupo fue contactado por el arquitecto Alejandro Aravena al inicio de este proyecto, que ha sido reconocio por su modelo de viviendas sociales. La respuesta fue inmediate: a mediados de esta década, Copec entró con 40% de la propiedad. Hoy es un emprendimiento relevante para el conglomerado. Roberto Angelini cuenta por qué.
Premios AVONNI: Los Más innovadores de 2009
EL MERCURIO | p. B 4 - B 6 | CHILE | 30/08/2009
Quinta Monroy at Architecture Now! Houses
ARCHITECTURE NOW! HOUSES | TASCHEN | p.38, 150-155 | GERMANY | 01/08/2009
Alejandro Aravena
IN Magazine | August | p.44-46 | CHILE |
Me siento orgulloso por traspasar conocimiento desde la periferia al centro.
I am proud of bringing knowledge from the margin to the mainstream.
Soy ejemplo de que la meritocracia funciona
VIVIENDA DECORACIÓN | p. 44-51 | CHILE | 25/07/2009
Quinta monroy en el Libro ecological living
Ecological Living | Actes Sud | p.148-153 | USA | 20/07/2009
DAMN magazine: entrevista Alejandro Aravena
DAMn | #21 | p.55-60 | BELGIUM | 01/04/2009
Il futuro? Elementare
IL SECOLO XIX | CULTURA & SPETTACOLI | p. 17 | ITALY | 30/01/2009
AlejandroAravena, 41 anni, talento emergente sulla scenamondiale: «La crisi economica nonmi fa paura, pu$ aiutare a eliminare il superfluo»
Structural Empowerment
INSIDEOUT | p. 130-135 | UAE | 27/01/2009
Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena believes that his half-finished homes are the answer for those living in poverty in Santiago (…)
Pulso: Nueva arquitectura en Chile
LA TERCERA | CHILE | 25/01/2009
Another project selected are the Siamese Tower (2005) at the San Joaquin Campus, UC
Equitat Elemental
AVUI+ | CULTURA | p. 17 | ESPAÑA | 17/01/2009
“La idea no és fer cases per a gent pobre sinó que les cases ajudin a superar la pobresa”
Alejandro Aravena: Architecture for the billions
ICON | JANUARY | p. 0, 54-59 | UK | 13/01/2009
There are two thing you should know about Alejandro Aravena.
First, he has built more than a thousand houses for Chile´s poor, with several thousand more under way; second, the CEO of COPEC, the Chilean oil company, sits on the board of his architecture practice.[⁄lang_en]
Best MoCo Architecture This Week
MOCOLOCO | 06/01/2009
“Elemental’s Quinta Monroy project at Arch Daily, social housing that grows over time, “when the given money is enough for just half of the house, the key question is, which half do we do. We choose to make the half that a family individually will never be able to achieve on its own, no matter how much money, energy or time they spend.”
“Elemental Quinta Monroy, en Arch Daily, es un proyecto de vivienda social que crece a lo largo del tiempo, “cuando el presupuesto disponible es suficiente sólo para construir la mitad de una casa, la pregunta es: qué mitad hacemos. Nosotros escogimos hacer la mitad que una familia individualemente jamás podrá ser capaz de conseguir por sí misma, no importando cuanta dinero, energía o tiempo gasten en conseguirlo.”
Elemental projects on Igloo
IGLOO | p. 58-60 | ROMANIA | 09/12/2008
In the last edition of Igloo, appears Elemental with the following projects: Chiguayante, Copiapo, Iquique, Renca, Temuco and the Pablo de Rokha and Aurelia Rojas schools.
Quinta Monroy en Dezeen
DEZEEN.COM | UK | 12/11/2008
Photographer Cristobal Palma has sent us these images of Quinta Monroy residential development, designed by Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena of Elemental.
Aravena was awarded the Silver Lion for a Promising Young Architect in the International Exhibition at the Venice architecture biennale this year for his work with Elemental.
Quinta Monroy Video on Detail Plus
DETAIL PLUS | GERMANY | 15/10/2008
Video Ceremonia de Premiación Bienal de Venecia: Entrega del León de Plata a ElementalAwards Ceremony Video of Venice Biennale: Elemental gots the Silver Lion
http://labiennalearchitettura.ultrafragola.tv | ITALY | 23/09/2008
Vivir elemental: El segundo tiempo de la vivienda social en Chile
LA NACION | p. 16-17 | CHILE | 21/09/2008
Ya no más casas cubiertas con plástico, goterones indignos ni piezas de tres por tres. Al menos eso es lo que promete la nueva política habitacional del Gobierno. De la mano del grupo Elemental, que obtuvo un León de Plata en la Bienal de Venecia, el futuro promete dejar en el pasado la segregación de los más pobres y su pesadilla de la casa propia. Si antes se apostó por la cantidad, ahora el desafío es la calidad. ¿No más nylon?
Arquitecto chileno se trae un León de Venecia
EL MERCURIO | p. 1, 24 | CHILE | 14/09/2008
“Desde Italia, Alejandro Aravena comenta el premio que le otorgó la Bienal de Venecia por su trabajo en viviendas sociales.
ROMINA DE LA SOTTA DONOSO
“Recibimos el León de Plata de manos de Frank Gehry, en el evento más importante del mundo para la arquitectura, y en la ceremonia estaban también Jean Nouvel y Zaha Hadid”, confirma desde Italia a “El Mercurio” Alejandro Aravena, director de la oficina chilena Elemental. Así, la Bienal de Venecia reconoció ayer, y con la presencia de tres Premios Pritzker, el innovador trabajo que ha realizado este arquitecto y profesor de la Universidad Católica de Chile con las viviendas sociales, y cuya cara más visible son los complejos habitacionales que Elemental ha construido en Renca, Lo Espejo e Iquique.
Beyond the profitable simplicity into the societal sustainability. Why we make
ARCHIPHOENIX | ROUGH NOTES | p. | THE NETHERLANDS | 09/09/2008
Collected by Bily Nolan from Roundtable discussion: Why we make
With Alejandro Aravena, Elemental, Santiago de Chile; Jeanne van Heeswijk, Rotterdam; Kai Vöckler, Archis Intervention Prishtina, Berlin. Moderator Ole Bouman, NAi, Rotterdam.
Elemental en especial Jóvenes Arquitectos Latino-Americanos de Revista aU
aU | JULIO | p. 48-56 | BRASIL | 18/08/2008
Los proyectos de Elemental Quinta Monroy (Iquique) y Lo Espejo (Santiago) aparecen en la reciente edición especial de la revista brasileña aU “Jovens Arquitetos Latino-Americanos”
“ARQUITETOS PROPÚEM UMA NOVA MANEIRA OE OLHAR – E FAZER – MORADIAS SOCIAIS AO DEIXAR UMA PARTE DA OBRA SOB RESPONSABILIDADE DOS MORADORES. O RESULTADO SÃO MORADIAS QUE SE VALORIZAM COM O TEMPO”
Proyectos de Elemental en Mark Magazine
MARK MAGAZINE |#15 | p. 174-181 | HOLLAND | 14/08/2008
Destacan proyecto Iquique en crítica de Verb Crisis
ICON MAGAZINE | JULIO | UK | 07/07/2008
En el número de julio de Icon magazine aparece una pequeña crítica de Verb Crisis. Destacan Iquique como el proyecto más interesante.
Quinta Monroy en ecologiK
ECOLOGIK | JULIO | p. 60-63 | FRANCIA 27/06/2008
El proyecto ELEMENTAL Quinta Monroy Iquique, aparece en la edición de Julio de la Revista francesa ecologiKm arquitectura y urbanismo eco-responsable.
Rescatar el cerro San Cristóbal en Revista Capital
REVISTA CAPITAL | Nº230 | CHILE | 13/06/2008
“¿Cuánto valoramos los espacios verdes en nuestra ciudad? Difícil respuesta. Santiago debe, de una vez por todas, imponer y fomentar una cultura de vida en plazas y parques. No nos dejemos estar en este tema. El arquitecto Alejandro Aravena, uno de los tipos que más saben sobre ciudades en Chile, lleva un buen tiempo insistiendo sobre la necesidad de rescatar el cerro San Cristóbal, el parque metropolitano más grande del mundo.”
Project Quinta Monroy in El Mercurio
EL MERCURIO | p. D18 | CHILE | 01/06/2008
“Elemental is the name of the project that has already built innovative social housing in Lo Espejo and Iquique, and that yesterday inaugurated a complex in Reneca. On Wednesday began their exposition in the Biennial of Moscow after having been in the Triennial of Milan. ”
QUINTA MONROY in ARCH
ARCH | p. 50 | SLOVAKIA | 20/05/2008
The ELEMENTAL Quinta Monroy Project was published in ARCH magazine of Bratislava, Republic of Slovenia.
Quinta Monroy entre las obras seleccionadas de la VI Bienal Iberoamericana de Arquitectura y Urbanismo en Lisboa, según El País.com
elpais.com | 07/05/2008
“(…) El jurado seleccionó en el apartado de mejores obras de arquitectura al Museo Rodin de la ciudad brasileña de Salvador de Bahía y a la Quinta Monroy, del chileno Alejandro Aravena, entre otros. El complejo deportivo Deodoro (Río de Janeiro), de los brasileños BCMF Arquitectos, y la Vivienda-Taller Ibiray en Montevideo, del uruguayo Bednarik-Mirabal, fueron algunos de los escogidos en el apartado a la mejor obra de arquitectura de autor joven. (…)”
ELEMENTAL in Arquine 43
ARQUINE 43 | p. 32 - 43 | MÉXICO | PRIMAVERA 2008 24/03/2008
“The two projects that we presented are part of the Elemental Initiative, a Doing Tank associates with the Compañía de Petróleos de Chile (Copec) and the Universidad Católica.We focus on designing and implementing urban projects of social interest and public relevance. In the realm of housing, at the end of 2007, we had built a thousand units in five projects and another two thousand underway. (…)”
ELEMENTAL in the monograph of Alejandro Aravena
ELECTA | p. 86 - 113 | ITALIA | 22/11/2007
The Italian editor, ELECTA, has just published a monograph on Alejandro Aravena, part of the series Documenti de architettura. It is titled Alejandro Aravena, projettare e costruire, and is published in Italian.
In the book are shown the ELEMENTAL Iquique, Lo Espejo and Renca projects, as well as the Sede Social Tipo.
ELEMENTAL in Modern Architecture by Kenneth Frampton
Thames&Hudson 29/10/2007
In the 4th edition (revised, expanded and updated)) of Modern Architecture, Kenneth Frampton included the ELEMENTAL project as an example in the realm of Social housing.
Interview with Alejandro Aravena on the program “Greenhouse Effect”
Efecto Invernadero | RADIO DUNA 89.7 | CHILE | 24/10/2007
The program, headed by Soledad Onetto and Francisco Aravena, invited Alejandro Aravena to their program, motivated by the inauguracion of the X Exhibition, a retrospective of his last 10 years of work.
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ELEMENTAL_Iquique in Design and Landscape for People
Thames & Hudson | p. 200-203 | INGLATERRA | 22/08/2007
“Can architects, designers, landscapers and artists make real difference to people’s quality of life? And if so, what are the best ways to address the problems of today’s societies -their lack of infrastructure, good-quality housing, resources and community spirit?”
In this book by Thames & Hudson. the ELEMENTAL_Iquique project is shown as an example of contribution to the quality of life of people in the city.
Sustainable Architecture
Editorial Pencil | p. 22-31| ESPAÑA | 15/08/2007
Appearance of the ELEMENTAL_Iquique project in the spanish book “Arquitectura Sostenible” for its social as well as technological sustainability.
ELEMENTAL in the Triennial of Architecture of Lisboa
CALVICIE GEOLÓGICA | p.26-35 | CHILE/PORTUGAL | 01/07/2007
ELEMENTAL was invited to present in the Triennial of Architecture of Lisboa, that occurs from May 31st to July 31st.
A book compiling all of the works by chilean architects, called Calvicie Geológica, was published. Arquitecturas desde el sur, showcasing the project in Iquique.
This book is given away in the Chile section of the Triennal.
ELEMENTAL Iquique in The Plan
THE PLAN | p.117-118 | ITALIA | 30/06/2007
Motivated by the exhibition “Made in Chle”, realized at St. Edwards University in Texas, the Italian magazine showed the work done in Iquique with text by Patricio Mardones.
ELEMENTAL Iquique in ARCHPLUS magazine
ARCHPLUS | p.122-125 | ALEMANIA | 31/05/2007
Publication of the project ELEMENTAL Iquique in the German magazine archplus.
Expansion-proof design
FOCO 76 | p.56-58 | CHILE |
Article written by Gonzalo Arteaga.
In social housing, the quality of materials is not as determinate as the quality of the design. This assures that the extensions, that the proprietors will undoubtedly need to build do not affect the initial thermic efficiency.
Publication in China of the Iquique project: “Benefit for people"
INTERIOR DESIGN | p.146-149 | CHINA | 15/05/2007
Publication of the project ELEMENTAL Iquique, motivated by Alejandro Aravena’s visit to China, where the ELEMENTAL project was displayed in the Construction Fair in Shanghai.
ELEMENTAL Iquique in DI, Architecture & design
di Architecture & Design | p.64-69 | CHINA | 27/04/2007
This publication edited in Shanghai displays the project ELEMENTAL Iquique, motivated by the recent visit of Andres Iacobelli to the Holcim forum and Alejandro Aravaena to the Construction Fair of Shanghai.
Andrés Iacobelli on Holcim
HOLCIM | CHINA | 21/04/2007
Andrés Iacobelli was the representative of ELEMENTAL to the Holcim Forum for sustainable construction to explain the Iquique eample and our vision in a workship over the Normative Urbanism part of the forum.
ELEMENTAL at the Holcim forum in CHINA
HOLCIM | p.17-23 | CHINA | 18/04/2007
ELEMENTAL participated in the Holcim forum for sustainable construction in China and was published in a publication called Urban_Trans_Formation including the projects on urbanism gathered at the forum, in which appears the project of Quinta Monroy in Iquique presented by Andrés Iacobelli.
ELEMENTAL in Harvard GSD publication: "Cities X lines:a new lens for the urbanistic project"
HARVARD GSD | p.92-93, 100-101 | USA | 31/12/2006
“In the case of Quinta Monroy, in Iquique (Chile), by Alejandro Aravena, great effort was put forth to develop and effiecient schema that could house a sufficient number of units to provoke level of density. Once this density is established, its possible to proportion out affordable dwellings in well equipped urban areas, so that the inhabitants have easy acces to services, transport, etc. (…)
New paths in social housing in Chile
EL MERCURIO | Urb. y Const. | p. 2 | CHILE | 23/11/2006
Social Housing erupted with force in the XV Biennial of Architecture. There were not only forums and seminars in which future housing policy was discussed, but also a dynamic housing project the hands down won the prize of best architectural work…
Quinta monroy in Domus: ELEMENTAL, Aravena
DOMUS | nº 886 | p. 34-41 | ITALIA | 15/11/2006
“Il progetto residenziale a Iquiquedi Alejandro Aravena, realizzato con 7.500 dollari per unità, modificato dagli interventi di autocostruzione degli occupanti.”
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“Alejandro Aravena’s low-cost housing in Iquique, at 7,500USD per unit, modified and completed by the inhabitants’ self-organized building process”
Alejandro Aravena Interview in Minimarket
MINIMARKET | RADIO HORIZONTE | CHILE | 06/11/2006
Minimarket is a program headed by Carola Urrejola that deals with new ideas. developed in Chile. The interview speaks of the basic housing with a cause of the prize of the Bienal de Arquitectura prize that the Elemental Iquique project won and of the new proposals of ELEMENTAL that pretend to generate changes that occupy the city as a medium for augmenting the short term equity.
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Congratulations Elemental
EL MERCURIO | CHILE | 05/11/2006
Publication in UPI for ELEMENTAL’s triumph in the Biennial of Architecture
01/11/2006
“SANTIAGO, Chile, nov. 1 (UPI) – The project ‘Elemental’, of social housing in Iquique, won the prize of the XV Bienal de Arquitectura 2006, received by the academic team of the Universidad Católica, headed by Alejandro Aravena.”
ELEMENTAL Iquique receives the prize of the Bienneal of Architecure 2006
CHILE | 28/10/2006
Today at 12:00 the team formed by Alejandro Aravena, Alfonso Montero, Tomás Cortese, Emilio De La Cerda y Andrés Iacobelli, received the prize of the XV Biennial of Architecture for the Collective Housing project // Elemental Project VDsD Quinta Monroy.
ELEMENTAL Team receiving the prize.
CONTACTO – Allegados: challenge to hopelessness
CANAL 13 | CONTACTO | 25/10/2006
The context of social housing in Chile, and the cases of Renca and ELEMENTAL_Iquique.
Program broadcasted on Canal 13.
Edited version, 30 minutes.
Program broadcasted on Canal 13.
Edited version, 30 minutes.
Architectural responses to humanitarian crises
DESIGN LIKE YOU GIVE A DAMN | p.164-167 | USA | 19/10/2006
Aparición del proyecto elemental Iquique en este libro editado por Architecture for Humanity.
“Most designers find solutions to policy limitations as a matter of course; rarely are they inspired by the limitations themselves.”
ELEMENTAL Iquique in the Biennial of Architecture, Santiago 2006
XV BIENAL DE ARQUITECTURA | 06/10/2006
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On the website of the XV biennial the project ELEMENTAL Iquique project that will form part of the national presentation is found published. The commentary produced a public discussion about the project and social housing.
Chile: Housing Policy
ADITAL | BRASIL | 16/08/2006
Text cited from adital.com.br
Pablo Jofré Leal
Adital – Article 1: New Housing Policy. Demand for decent housing
The scandal unleashed by the so-called Chubi houses and the tiny dwellings, determined that the government of the President Michelle Bachelet looked to find a new Housing Policy for the Improvement of Quality and Social Integration, to shed the light of change on the situation.
More than a month passed from the television report that denounced the existence of social “houses” of 12 square meters in Malloa and of 9 meters in Machalí, the chilean society began to shake off the lethargy of seeing, knowing and accepting the construction of these dwellings that fail to satisfy the needs of chileans of scant resources, for which “one’s own house” has eluded this important point of the citizen’s rights. The embarrassment in front of works that demean citizens, was the rubric for a vastly delayed decision: to generate a new policy that provides poorer Chileans with housing that is, above all, decent and it is this which has stood out from this presidential decision.
ELEMENTAL Program Rethinking housing in chile
PRAXIS | p.52-57 | USA | 01/08/2006
ELEMENTAL, “An Initiative to Construct Seven Sets of Housing of Very Low Cost in Chile”, reexamines the program of low-cost dwellings by asking a fundamental question: what is the minimum dwelling unit that allow maximum flexibility over time while maintaining the larger social, urban, and physical order?
This question is not new. The existenzminimum lay at the heart of modern architecture’s mission as formulated by the 1929 CIAM Conference in Frankfurt and in such projects as the Weissenhoffsiedlñung in 1927or, more recently, the 1969 PREVI Lima housing in Perú. Yet ELEMENTAL brings a new focus to this debate, as it proposes to find a balance between the top-down planning approach, as practiced by the modern forefathers, and the bottom-up transformation of the dwellings by their inhabitants over time.(…)
Positive change generated housing project in Iquique
CANAL 13 | Teletrece | CHILE | 06/07/2006
In the news report of canal 13 the 12 sqm house of Malloa were compared with the project of ELEMENTAL Iquique, claiming that the Malloa complex belong on the progresive house program, in wich the bullet is smaller than the Iquique’s project, as a result are not directly comparable
Spatial game
AMÉRICA ECONOMÍA | Nº323 | p.46-47 | 18/05/2006
Chilean architects design and build low cost houses that can grow, give value and help escape from poverty.Social housing is designed for orchestrated extension.
The ordered growth of these homes save urban space.
The Harvard Neighborhood
QUÉ PASA | Nº1779 | p. 46-50 | CHILE | 14/05/2006
Very close to the downtown of Iquique still functions the Población Violeta Parra, the new face of the ex Quinta Monroy, one of the poorest and populous sectors of the city. The project of 93 social dwellings of solid material and revolutionary design is the origen of an idea that seduced the Northamerican university and wil be extended to seven other regions of Chile.
PROJECT AND AUTO-CONSTRUCTION
SUMMA+ | p. 136-141 | ARGENTINA | 15/04/2006
Elemental is an international initiative that will build 7 exemplary low-cost housing projects along the length of Chile, appealing to the best practices in architecture and urban design, in structural technology and construction, and en community work with the objective of contribution with concrete experience to the problem of housing for the poorest peoples of developing countries.
Quartiere de abitazione, Quinta Monroy – Elemental
CASABELLA | Nº742 | p. 80-91 | ITALIA | 01/03/2006
Elemental è un’iniziativa internazionale in seguito alla quale verranno realizzati sette nuclei modello di circa 150 aloggi ciascuno a bassissimo costo in variei zone del Cile con il supporto di alcuni tra i maggiori esperti d’architettura e urbanistica…
Project VDSD Quinta Monroy
30n-60s | p. 48-55 | ARGENTINA |
One of the keys to the project was the participation. Assemblies were organized to communicate financing restrictions, available options and to incorporate preferences of the neighbors. This derived a typology that draw features of identity and respond to the needs of the families involved.
A participative design: Quinta Monroy
ARHITECTURA | Nº41 | p. 56-61 | RUMANIA | 01/02/2006
The Chilean Government asked ELEMENTAL to resolve the following equation: to settle the 100 families of the Quinta Monroy, in the same 5.000m² site that they have illegaly occupied for the last 30 years which is located in the very center of iquique, a city in the Chilean desert.(…)Challenge of Decency
PROYECTO DISEÑO | p. 33-36 | COLOMBIA | 20/12/2005
Sustainable Housing: vehicle to overcome poverty.
Many countries of the world lack the resources and the unequal distribution of wealth has generated a social class that lives in extreme poverty.
Communes, favelas and hovels are homes built with waste that bobijan to those on the peripheries of society. To this problem the chilean project Elemental raises an worthy example to follow and study.
Documentary of Quinta Monroy
01/08/2005
Documentary of Quinta Monroy Project in Iquique, Chile from elementalchile on Vimeo.
“El tiempo que llegó, La historia de la Quinta Monroy” (The time that came, Story of Quinta Monroy)
The approaching earthquake
EL MERCURIO | p. B-8 | CHILE | 29/06/2005
Cada cierto tiempo escandalizan las imágenes de casas que se llueven o se agrietan. Pero más graves son la mala ubicación y el nulo sentido de barrio que afectan a quienes tienen menos. Lo que se hace hoy en esta materia requiere de un remezón que lleve a enfatizar la calidad.
THE PROJECT ELEMENTAL-IQUIQUE RESPONDS SATISFACTORILY TO THE EARTHQUAKE OF THE NORTH
15/06/2005
The dwellings of the Project ELEMENTAL, condominium Violeta Parra (ex-Quinta Monroy) in Iquique, managed to overcome the difficult test of the earthquake shaking The Tarapaca region last Tuesday, June 13th, exceedingly well, being found with the totality of the families and dwellings in good condition.
EFFICIENT STRUCTURE
The typology of the ELEMENTAL-Iquique project consists in a one story dwelling on the first level and a two story apartment on the second. Between them are voids of 3×6 meters for the development of additions for the families. This obliges a special consideration in the structural design to include the future additions in the initial structure.
On an inspection visit, after the earthquake, it was verified that the residents remembered the technical instructions incorporated by the ELEMENTAL team where the function of the structure in case of earthquake was explained along with how the additions should be implemented. The previous knowledge to these conditions, like the quality of the construction’s response generates a sensation of security and tranquility of the residents.
SEISMIC EVALUATION
Resident leaders, delegates from each of the condominiums and the volunteer teams from the Chile-Barrio Program and Un Techo Para Chile, went house by house verifying that all the inhabitants were in good conditions, evaluating the dwellings’ responses to the tremor.
In this first general observation it was observed that there were no existing damages in the reinforced steel structure.
The most common defect in the contruction corresponds to a mortar fissure and in the window parapets on the second floor, considered a predictable damage in this level of seismic activity along with superficial cracks in the stucco added by the residents themselves.
ELEMENTAL supports and appreciates the good disposition and commitment of the Violeta Parra community, student volunteers, local authorities and the MINVU, y uses the example of these families as motivation to continue the search for innovative solutions and technology for offering safer and more dignified dwellings for all chileans.
El Serviu acquired the Quinta Monroy
ESTRELLA DE IQUIQUE | p. A-3 | CHILE | 13/01/2004
A new accusation against the Chile Barrio program was made by the people of the Quinta Monroy sector. According to their report, a buy-sell of the site where this populous sector is located was never realized, in view of which the creation of the new housing construction program would be irregular. (…)
Chile as seen from HARVARD
REVISTA CAPITAL | p.90-91 | CHILE | 01/06/2002
The response of Jorge Silvetti, chairman of Harvard’s School of Architecture, is surprising: in Chile this discipline is on par the best centers in the world. The consequences and projections that can be reached through this are unimaginable. Like a project for social housing in Chile designed by the best architects in the world. Given the source, this is not to be taken lightly.