THE DESIGN The design aims at finding a solution to the affordable housing issue in Mexico, a project which is defined by its low cost and material nature and spatial qualities responding to the user aspect. Bilbao, in order to fight the housing crisis and rental problems, sought to build $8,000 to $12,000 homes for some of the poorest people in Mexico. The plan called for 3,000 homes to be built in five years.1
Additio nal Space
Pitched roof
fig 3.2.4: Illustration demonstrating the availability of additional space in a house
To be able to achieve such a goal, it was deemed to know what the people who were actually going to live inside the house needed and wanted in terms of materials, form, function and appearance and space requirements.
They discovered that while villagers preferred a pitched roof, they also craved additional space, one of the reasons area builders were using flat roofs and exposed rebar in the first place.
Large Family: Migrants
Selling Area Working area/ Store Textile industry
Carpenter
Storage Grocery Store Owner
Vegetable Patch
Extra rooms Working area/ Store
Cafeteria owner
Potter
Seating Kitchen/ Store
fig 3.2.5: Flow chart of various functions 1. http://www.archdaily.com/775233/tatiana-bilbaos-8000-house-could-solve-mexicossocial-housing-shortage
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Selling Area
Storage Selling area