Vivienda de interés social frente a desastres naturales. Caso de estudio: Baños de Agua Santa - Tungurahua

Abstract

Abstract: On account to the vulnerability of 32 families from the Juive Grande community, who after being resettled in 2008, losing their homes due to the eruption of the Tungurahua volcano in 2006, are once again exposed to natural threats in their current place of residence. Residence known as Rio Blanco of the Ulba parish of Baños de Agua Santa, in 2019, in this case due to mass movements, leaving the polygon where the homes of these 32 families are located at risk classified as intolerable, so they must be relocated again. The purpose of this work is to propose for this new process of relocation for the affected families, a housing project that avoids a new reproduction of disasters, with an integral vision from four dimensions, socio-cultural, economic, technological and environmental, which will start from the selection of a piece of land with suitable characteristics for resettlement, followed by the proposal of decent, accessible and above all safe housing, as well as a safe and sustainable habitat.