Progresividad espontánea en las viviendas de interés social. Casos de estudio: viviendas de dos plantas en Ciudad Alegría, Loja-Ecuador

Abstract

Abstract: In the design of social housing there are recommendations, based on experiences and studies in different contexts, about the application of flexible strategies, with the aim of generating projects that allow users to adapt and progress. But within the executionof the housing plans in the Ciudad Alegría project, what is offered are finished products, which although they supply the demand, their design does not include project strategies for the adaptation or possible growth of the house.Therefore, the inhabitants limited to a repeated project in series, modify the design to meet their needs or desires. It is these forced or improvised changes that this research documents and analyzes, with the vision of exposing the current situation of the dwellings and identifying the growth made by the users.The results of the research show how new spatialities and invasions emerge from a prototype, which does not have flexible characteristics. In addition, a record of the growth stages that the homes have had since the initial prototype. This spontaneous growth systematization may allow us to understand new design conditioning factors in the formal city within the scope of social housing.