Neighborhood of Seventy Low Cost Houses: Simulations of Sequence for Neighborhood Layout, Lot Division, and House Layout

Seventy low-cost houses in 4,2 acres, designed by families, and partially built by families, as part of the self help construction process of Construyamos, the largest self help cooperative in Colombia, with a total construction volume of 50,000 houses per ...

Each act of building needs to have a positive effect on its surroundings; to complete them, preserve their structure, make them better, by creating strong centers in them and next to them. Each new building is more alive when it ...

In architecture, as in other things, the "right" sequence is of vital importance. It is a generative sequence of progressive differentiations, which allow space to unfold in the right order. Each differentiation acts on the product of the previous ...

Neighborhoods and communities grow and change over time, and the effect of time on the process of its adaptation on real needs is huge, and leads to types and styles of order quite different from any planned arrangement, based on ...

59-page document with construction guidelines, ensuring that each house could be built according to the individual designs developed with each family, and without increasing construction costs. The construction system used was a modified version of the typical construction system of ...

Draft of document in two parts: The first part includes an 8-page document with “Notes on the layout process” with the list of steps to follow: 1. Site Layout Process; 2. Neighborhood Layout Process; 3. Lot Division Process in two ...