ELEMENTAL©

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.(…)

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