Housing Contest VPO Cadiz
Year March 2014 Colaboration MONTSERRAT DÍAZ, ANTONIO MARTÍN Y JULIAN PRIETO
Overcoming the concept of protected housing, we believe that more often than usual, in public housing developments, are not well distinguished economic problems of social problems or the form or type of housing and what is worse are mistaken .
It has been regulated with great precision the economic profile of buyers or tenants and of course, the meters and shape of the houses and their rooms without taking into account the way of life and especially the family evolution versus the permanence that the construction Of a new dwelling.
Also, the different regional and provincial administrations have inherited literally and without question the old state legislation, when the present society is quite another forty years later.
Therefore, it seems more reasonable to disconnect as much as possible the type of housing, the rent and the number of people at a time fixed by the purchase or award. It makes more sense to protect people or families than people’s homes.
Programs based on the number of bedrooms are overly rigid. We want to start from a basic and flexible initial structure, highly transformable and able to grow and adapt easily to the transformations of the families that inhabit them and that maintain their value in time.
For this and prior character it is necessary to assume that a vpo is not a miniaturization of a standard bourgeois dwelling with behavior patterns established by the customs and where the relations between pieces are accepted as valid and the very determined character of each one of them. The family structure has changed. Many young people do not live like their parents.