La obsolescencia de las tipologías de vivienda de los polígonos residenciales construidos entre 1950 y 1976: Desajustes con la realidad sociocultural contemporánea

Abstract

The paper focuses on housing typologies as one of the main reasons for the current obsolescence of the so called "polígonos residenciales". These housing estates were relatively homogeneous, due to the fact that they were the result of processes determined and controlled by the government through laws, norms and regulations, mostly during the decade of the 1950s. The author contends that the architectural typologies derived from these prescriptions contribute to their obsolescence because nowadays they present a mismatch with contemporary social and cultural reality. The article is structured around two points. The first one reflects upon the evolution of the thinking and the process of experimentation that preceded the mass construction of the "polígonos residenciales" in the 1960s and 1970s. The second one identifies and discusses five main mismatches between their housing typologies and contemporary needs.