DESIGN OF RESILIENT AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROTOTYPES FOR LATIN AMERICAN CITIES

Abstract

Population growth in Latin America implies a high demand for housing for the next few years. This research focused this demand on the production of affordable housing for low-income families in the region. Producing affordable housing requires resilience-based design strategies that respond to climate change. Resilient design is an alternative for the construction of sustainable buildings. Clean technology is crucial to the resilient design of affordable housing. Since this technology type includes the Life Cycle Analysis throughout the production process, what are the basic guidelines to drive resilient strategies for affordable housing design? The article aims to suggest basic guidelines for housing prototypes and drive clean technologies like resilient strategies. This research developed the research method in two key steps. First, the theoretical step was a literary review using the PRISMA method. Second, the empirical phase shows guidelines for affordable housing prototype design. The result was an Affordable Housing Prototypes applied in the Latin American context. The affordable housing prototypes were developed in Guadalajara, Mexico and Bogotá Colombia.