Discusión de la flexibilidad y progresividad de conjuntos habitacionales del casco céntrico de la ciudad de Loja

Abstract

Abstract: A flexible and progressive habitational complex is the one that directly benefits the users who live in it, allowing diverse adaptations and modifications over time, therefore, the present study pretends to analyze the flexibility and progressivity of habitational complexes located in the center district of the city Loja, through variables and indicators supported by 3 authors, where a comparative analysis was made between flexibility components, flexibility strategies, typological models and progressivity modalities of a house, allowing the generation of a new operationalization where the results were ranked by a Linkert scale and these results allowed to elaborate a comparative synthesis that reflects the value of flexibility and progressivity in a partial and global level, revealing that in the centric district of the Loja city there are habitational complexes with high, medium and low rate of flexibility and progressivity, in which characteristically the highest grades comprehend buildings that were recently built, whereas the lowest grades comprehend buildings that were built several years ago.