Comparing images from the Kowloon walled City between 1973 and 1990 reminded me a lot of Alejandro Aravena’s Quinta Monroy housing project. Basically, the units were built leaving space for the residents to extend, and when it was ‘finished’ in 2004, it was left up to the residence to extend how they wished. It’s a pretty good outcome considering the constraints of the brief:
To settle the 100 families of the Quinta Monroy, in the same 5,000 sqm site that they have illegally occupied for the last 30 years which is located in the very center of Iquique, a city in the Chilean desert.
We had to work within the framework of the current Housing Policy, using a US$ 7,500 subsidy with which we had to pay for the land, the infrastructure and the architecture. Considering the current values in the Chilean building industry, US$ 7,500 allows for just around 30 sqm of built space.
More words and images over at Arch Daily.
(via ilezia)
Comparing images from the Kowloon walled City between 1973 and 1990 reminded me a lot of Alejandro Aravena’s Quinta Monroy housing project. Basically, the units were built leaving space for the residents to extend, and when it was ‘finished’ in 2004, it was left up to the residence to extend how they wished. It’s a pretty good outcome considering the constraints of the brief:
To settle the 100 families of the Quinta Monroy, in the same 5,000 sqm site that they have illegally occupied for the last 30 years which is located in the very center of Iquique, a city in the Chilean desert.
We had to work within the framework of the current Housing Policy, using a US$ 7,500 subsidy with which we had to pay for the land, the infrastructure and the architecture. Considering the current values in the Chilean building industry, US$ 7,500 allows for just around 30 sqm of built space.
More words and images over at Arch Daily.
(via ilezia)
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