Social Housing in Venezuela
Developing a system/policy of social housing according to the Venezuela's particular conditions.
Developing a system/policy of social housing according to the Venezuela's particular conditions.
Housing in Venezuela is an very important matter. The housing deficit is around 3.000.000 units and every year are produced no more than 70.000 units. The ministry of Housing and Public Works grounded an unit to take charge of the design and research of new prototypes that fit to the social needs and can be faster and better build.
Taking this in mind the design unit have developed different prototypes that fit to different conditions - urban areas, rural areas, high density, shanty towns, and other cases identified - and are part of a system that starts with idea that the housing unit is a family, so a groups of families are a community and a group of communities are a major community, or the same a group of housing units are a building, a group of buildings are a ‚block‘ and a group of ‚blocks‘ are a planning area.
This simple idea drove the design of a serie of interchangeable housing units that allow the designers and developers achieve different configurations of density, image, characteristics, etc.
Most of the construction pieces of the houses are interchangeable and can be easy industrialized in community factories, creating not only homes but also jobs.
Taking this in mind the design unit have developed different prototypes that fit to different conditions - urban areas, rural areas, high density, shanty towns, and other cases identified - and are part of a system that starts with idea that the housing unit is a family, so a groups of families are a community and a group of communities are a major community, or the same a group of housing units are a building, a group of buildings are a ‚block‘ and a group of ‚blocks‘ are a planning area.
This simple idea drove the design of a serie of interchangeable housing units that allow the designers and developers achieve different configurations of density, image, characteristics, etc.
Most of the construction pieces of the houses are interchangeable and can be easy industrialized in community factories, creating not only homes but also jobs.