Emergency living: A post-disaster transitional habitat for Tomé (Chile)

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https://doi.org/10.22320/07183607.2024.27.50.07

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habitat, disaster, emergency construction, housing, forest fire

Abstract

An academic workshop was held using a user-focused bottom-up approach to learn lessons about the possibility of a transitory habitat using pre-disaster planning and shared spaces that allow, post-disaster, to meet individual and community needs. In this workshop, using analysis guided by the qualitative study of interviews with a representative sample of the affected population and an ideation stage guided by feedback and correction cycles, configurations are proposed for the case study of the commune of Tomé in the Bío-Bío Region, Chile, which was severely damaged by the forest fires that affected the country in February 2023. Qualitative planning of participatory and shared solutions was used, to face the quantitative imposition of technocratic and universal solutions.

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Alberto Álvarez-Agea, University Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain.

Doctor in Advanced Architectural Projects
Assistant Professor Doctor, School of Engineering of Fuenlabrada (URJC) - Faculty of Architecture, Urbanism and Geography University of Concepción

Pablo Bris-Marino, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.

Doctor of Architecture
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Chemistry and Industrial Design, School of Engineering and Industrial Design.

Félix Bendito-Muñoz-de-Cuerva, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.

Doctor in Engineering and Production.
Associate Professor, School of Engineering and Industrial Design.

Daniel Martínez-Díaz, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.

Doctor of Architecture
Permanent Professor, School of Engineering and Industrial Design.

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Published

2024-11-30

How to Cite

Álvarez-Agea, A., Bris-Marino, P., Bendito-Muñoz-de-Cuerva, F., & Martínez-Díaz, D. (2024). Emergency living: A post-disaster transitional habitat for Tomé (Chile). Urbano, 27(50), 86–99. https://doi.org/10.22320/07183607.2024.27.50.07

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