top of page
Research Proyects
1I am
Through
Instruction on expansion possibilities for recent owners of subsidized rural social housing.
Instructing
Neighborhood planning design with children of Year 9 Key Stage 3. Each group designs a sector of a large neighborhood based on the regeneration of an old air base in the urban area of Santiago.
Discussions
Interview through neighborhood commented tour.
Walks
Final coursework. An event in which learning is presented to the residents of the neighbourhood. Feedback and retribution is generated with the neighbours.
Retribution
Collage as one of the initial activities with families of the community project to open imaginaries about improvements in the neighborhood “Our neighborhood of dreams”
Dreaming
Focus group with close families living with the owners of the land to study the willingness to build family condominiums on their own site.
Focus groups
Spanish language classes to Haitian immigrants. Volunteer work with Jesuit Migrant Service work material.
Communication
Instruction on expansion possibilities for recent owners of subsidized rural social housing.
Evaluations
Guidance and participative decision making with extended households living in precarious housing, on 1 or 2 floor typologies for on-site densification.
Guidance
Session of the Interinstitutional Roundtable for Neighborhood Regeneration 9x18
Cooperation
Activity with monopoly game with unequal basic conditions and proposal of alternative games that correct the inequalities.
Games
Neighborhood scenarios for the Santiago Architecture Biennial. Comparative model with: origins, current situation, intensive densification and regeneration on a medium scale.
Exhibitions
Weekly university class in the field. Group work at the neighbourhood’s headquarters after making a diagnosis in houses with neighbours.
Fieldwork
University campus puzzle to be put together as a group against the clock, which will then be worked on in a guided tour of the campus. Marking milestones and places recognized and unknown by students.
Motivating
Participatory diagnosis with neighbourhood leaders and their families on concerns and potentialities of the neighbourhood and its surroundings.
Participation
Workshop on the design of social housing adaptations with a tactile model for a blind couple.To qualify for complementary state subsidy.
Listening
Post interview with neighbourhood leaders five years after the closure of the “Quiero mi Barrio” programme. For a study of the programme’s sustainability.
Interviews
Workshop with demountable models to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of different building typologies with extended households.
Consultations
Introductory lesson on neighbourhood and urban planning for students of Year 8 Key Stage 3.
Education
Group training with older adults for design work with a model representing prefabricated adaptable housing. Then we would work with each family in particular.
Training
Work on a model of neighbourhood densification on cubes representing housing, services and green areas. With young people from 6 to 17 years old.
Playing
Construction of a wood prefabricated emergency house. For families in precarious housing in the metropolitan area of Santiago.
Building
Location of neighborhoods 9x18 with respect to the Metro de Santiago transport system (Fundación Vivienda, 2018) in "Lots 9×18 - A new opportunity in housing policy".
Interdiscipline
Advantages and conditions of the implementation of the state subsidy for the construction of a family condominium on their own plor. Before and after representation.
Proposals
Genograph and occupation of the house by an extended family, together with the productive activities developed inside the house.
Genographs
Representation of different scales of common neighbourhood concern. Introduction of the “ vecinal piece “ in the plans of neighborhood regeneration.
Research
Study of the dynamics of the use of the home by the couple of the prostrate elderly and their caregiver. In the Healthy Habitat course.
Understanding
Modelling of different possible densities in 9x18 neighbourhoods.
Modelling
Methodology for grouping social housing complexes at altitude for national cadastre.
Cadasters
Evaluation of different building typologies and land occupation for the construction of family condominiums on their own site.
Iteration
bottom of page