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Technology transfer and training. A viable building material developed to deal with the aftermath of the Haiti 2010 disaster

No. 6 (2010-07-01)
  • Carlos González Lobo
    1 Arquitecto, profesor e investigador en la Facultad de Arquitectura de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). También es docente de la Facultad de Arquitectura en la Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA), México. espaciomaximocostominimo@yahoo.com.mx
  • María Eugenia Hurtado Azpeitia
    2 Arquitecta con Maestría en Arquitectura. Coordinadora del Taller “Carlos Leduc M” de la Facultad de Arquitectura de la Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM), México. Integrante del grupo de apoyo técnico solidario: “Espacio Máximo y Costo Mínimo”.
https://doi.org/10.18389/dearq6.2010.06

Abstract

This paper presents an experimental process for constructing affordable housing. Concrete vaults are built on steel sheets lain out on the ground where they are later prefabricated and hauled up on load-bearing walls, to produce affordable monolithic covers that can be used for self-building with the cooperation of technical support teams. We conclude that the process is applicable in reconstruction processes such as the one in Haiti after the 2010 disaster.

Keywords: affordable housing, prefabricated vaults, reconstruction of Haiti, self-building