Brazilian cities suffer from an increasing shortage of housing for low-income people. Gevernamental efforts to eliminate the problem have not been successful, and there is a need for other approaches to the problem. Among these, self-help housing seems to be very promising. In this study, a self-help low-cost housing technology is presented, and the construction of a 22 m² prototype is described. The development of the technology was based on four parameters: User's participation, use of low-cost materials, modular coordination, and man-equipament interaction. The technology was developed to provide the basic shelter, which consists of the following sub-systems: foundation, walls, plumbing and electrical systems, floor and roof. The results obtained in the construction of the prototype encourage the adoption of the approach used, and provide a basis for further development of the technology to easy the housing problem in Brazil.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:IBICT/oai:www.lume.ufrgs.br:10183/38796 |
| Date | January 1981 |
| Creators | Azambuja, Jose Alberto |
| Contributors | Não disponível |
| Source Sets | IBICT Brazilian ETDs |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, instname:Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, instacron:UFRGS |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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