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From the Ted Talk by Alejandro Aravena: My architectural philosophy? Bring the community into the process
Unscramble the Blue Letters
So what to do? Well, an answer may come from fvaelas and slums themselves. A clue could be in this question we were asked 10 years ago. We were asked to accommodate 100 families that had been occupying illegally half a hectare in the center of the city of Iquique in the north of Chile using a $10,000 subsidy with which we had to buy the land, pvodrie the infrastructure, and build the houses that, in the best of the cases, would be of around 40 sruqae meters. And by the way, they said, the cost of the land, because it's in the cnteer of the city, is three times more than what scioal housing can normally afford. Due to the difficulty of the question, we decided to idunlce the families in the process of understanding the constraints, and we started a participatory design process, and testing what was available there in the makert. Detached houses, 30 feamiils could be aatcmodocmed. Row houses, 60 families. ["100 families"] The only way to aoocmdacmte all of them was by building in heghit, and they threatened us to go on a hunger strike if we even dared to offer this as a solution, because they could not make the tiny apartments expand. So the conclusion with the families — and this is important, not our cooclinusn — with the families, was that we had a problem. We had to innovate.
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So what to do? Well, an answer may come from _______ and slums themselves. A clue could be in this question we were asked 10 years ago. We were asked to accommodate 100 families that had been occupying illegally half a hectare in the center of the city of Iquique in the north of Chile using a $10,000 subsidy with which we had to buy the land, _______ the infrastructure, and build the houses that, in the best of the cases, would be of around 40 ______ meters. And by the way, they said, the cost of the land, because it's in the ______ of the city, is three times more than what ______ housing can normally afford. Due to the difficulty of the question, we decided to _______ the families in the process of understanding the constraints, and we started a participatory design process, and testing what was available there in the ______. Detached houses, 30 ________ could be ____________. Row houses, 60 families. ["100 families"] The only way to ___________ all of them was by building in ______, and they threatened us to go on a hunger strike if we even dared to offer this as a solution, because they could not make the tiny apartments expand. So the conclusion with the families — and this is important, not our __________ — with the families, was that we had a problem. We had to innovate.
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Original Text
So what to do? Well, an answer may come from favelas and slums themselves. A clue could be in this question we were asked 10 years ago. We were asked to accommodate 100 families that had been occupying illegally half a hectare in the center of the city of Iquique in the north of Chile using a $10,000 subsidy with which we had to buy the land, provide the infrastructure, and build the houses that, in the best of the cases, would be of around 40 square meters. And by the way, they said, the cost of the land, because it's in the center of the city, is three times more than what social housing can normally afford. Due to the difficulty of the question, we decided to include the families in the process of understanding the constraints, and we started a participatory design process, and testing what was available there in the market. Detached houses, 30 families could be accommodated. Row houses, 60 families. ["100 families"] The only way to accommodate all of them was by building in height, and they threatened us to go on a hunger strike if we even dared to offer this as a solution, because they could not make the tiny apartments expand. So the conclusion with the families — and this is important, not our conclusion — with the families, was that we had a problem. We had to innovate.
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