The Progressive housing as architectural strategy for the informal growth of the periphery in Latin America

Abstract

In Latin America, degraded areas have become a growth factor. The scale and speed at which they occur make this phenomenon visible as relevant in the imaginary of the Latin American city. This imaginary is associated with misery and deterioration, both socially and architecturally. Thus, the peripheries of the Latin American city rise from self-constructed houses that reproduce in the urban space (and make visible) the conditions of marginality. However, this phenomenon also shows how this architecture adapts to the multiple changes of its inhabitants. From the study of cases, concepts and theories that have transcended and other current ones, this research addresses the study of these values ​​and situations in order to move away from their condition mythologized by the heroic, to establish project strategies to achieve a flexible architecture capable of being designed to absorb these mutations.