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so that the flow
of people into cities
happens in a good way.
With the Lo Barnechea project the main
priority was location.
Behind me you see the group
of families in the situation before,
meaning they live in a slum.
What we are trying to do
is that knowing
that the location is so important,
because schools, transportation,
jobs are in this part of the city,
which is actually
the richest part of the city.
What we were looking for was to find
a design that was able to pay
for very expensive land, but keep
all those networks.
So much more important then an extra
square meter of house,
was a better located square meter
of land, which tends to be expensive.
With a subsidy that is about $10,000
that is given to a poor family
that will then become
an owner of the house,
we had to buy the land,
provide the infrastructure,
and build the houses.
Instead of producing tiny units,
we asked ourselves
"Why don't we think of it
as half of a good house?"
And we thought it was efficient
to make the half
that a family could never achieve
on their own.
with their own timing,
according to their own needs.
We call it participatory design.
To have a participatory design means
to have families sitting at the table
to help us decide what are we going
to deliver from day one
and what can be left so that families
themselves take care of that.
We asked families
what was more important:
There was not enough money for both.
Decision makers, or politicians,
or professionals
they normally tend to answer
the water heater.
And in 100% of the cases
when we asked the families
they preferred the bathtub
over the water heater.
You have to understand
that they are coming
from no water, no sewage.
A shower meant to have a can with
water in the courtyard.
So they are going to have privacy.
More important than that,
when they move in,
they do not have money to pay
the gas bill to heat the water.
So knowing that in their priorities,
bathtub is much higher
than water heater,
let's do the bathtub,
and allow them over time
to buy the water heater.
and how design
can facilitate families' lives
standard in the future.
That's how quality
should be measured.
And that is definitely not the way
social housing was
being measured, not the way
it was being designed.
Historically cities have come into
being for many different reasons.
Cities grow up around
logistical issues,
for example, on a port.
Or somewhere that is advantageous
specifically for trade.
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