Abstract

GIANNOTTI, Emanuel  and  MONDRAGON-LOPEZ, Hugo. The instability of the form. Low-income housing projects in Santiago de Chile, 1953-1970. Bitácora Urbano Territorial [online]. 2017, vol.27, n.1, pp.35-46. ISSN 0124-7913.  https://doi.org/10.15446/bitacora.v27n1.42910.

The projects of Archigram, the Japanese Metabolists and Team X seem to have nothing to do with the social housing programmes that were developed in Chile during the active period of the Corporación de la Vivienda (19531976). Although the first projects have been explained based on the relationship between art and architecture, the low-income housing problem has been mainly addressed as a political, technical, social or economic issue. However, there is common ground between these two different proposals: the idea that there is a dimension of form that can be projected and stabilized and another dimension of form that cannot be projected and stabilized, which is left to be practiced, managed and decided by its users. This paper proposes a critical reading of some Chilean housing programmes for low-income sectors, such as the Erradicaciones and Operación Sitio.

Keywords : Housing; Erradicaciones; Operación Sitio; urban infomality; low-income neighbourhoods.

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