Social Housing II: the Participative House Assembled in One Week

Comunal: Taller de Arquitectura, Energy and sustainability, expanding design practices, Low Density, Project, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms

Bamboo, Community, Context, Ecological researches, Empowering society, Energetic Approach, Housing, Local materials, Mexico, On-site prefab, Participation, Passive ventilation, Project, Puebla, Recycling, Territorial Approach, Tradition, Updating Native Techniques, Vernacular, Water harvests

Collaborators: Unión de Cooperativas Tosepan Titataniske

In February 2016 the National Housing Commission, CONAVI (for its acronym in Spanish), renewed its operating rules for providing federal subsidies. New regulations established that the use of traditional materials and constructive systems such as bamboo, straw, bajareque, palm, carrizo and wood, was considered precarious, denying access to federal funds for self-construction practices using these materials.