Four projects that emerged from the National Reconstruction Programand executed by the National Housing Commission (Conavi), will compete for the 2022 World Habitat Awards, organized by World Habitat, an organization that promotes projects that provide solutions to different problems of living placepromote diversity, equality and inclusion, address the climate emergency or are carried out in collaboration with the local community.
The national reconstruction programn is focused on serving the victims of the 2017 and 2018 earthquakes, so now these projects will compete in said international contest by meeting criteria such as impact, innovation, environmental sustainability, relevance, viability and transferability.
The projects registered in the contest are:
one.- Social Reconstruction of the Habitat in La Blanca, Santo Domingo Ingenio, Oaxaca. In this project, 10 households under the pre-Hispanic technique of Bajareque Cerén, in order to rebuild the homes that were lost in the earthquakes. This project had the collaboration of the Community Cooperation association and more than 3 million 800,000 pesos were invested.
two.- The Great Plain, Guerrero. Thanks to this project, 18 households in the Me’phaa indigenous population with an investment of 2 million 600,000 pesos. “It should be noted that it is a community with a high degree of housing backwardness and a collective work was carried out among the members of the families,” explained the Secretariat of Development, Agrarian, Territorial and Urban.
3.- Santa Maria Mixtequilla, Oaxaca. In this area 18 were rebuilt households where the purpose was to rescue the traditional and cultural aspect, with typical materials and methods of the region such as red brick, walls and blight, paint prepared with lime and mortar, elaboration of roofs with clay tiles, biliguana and andirons; in addition to the fact that the houses, due to their height and material, reduce heat.
4.- San Dionisio del Mar, Oaxaca. This anchored project that was carried out in the area of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec sought the design of houses in order to combine the typology of living place contemporary with traditional materials such as palm and latticework, with its own characteristics such as corridors or porches that are areas of family and work coexistence.
The Sedatu emphasized that the works where there is the intervention of the National Commission of living place They are intended to promote the development of native communities with the use of traditional methods, sustainable design and adaptation to the climatic and geographical conditions of each region.
“The beneficiaries of these projects received a living place new house that houses their identity, customs and history and in this way compliance with the seven elements of adequate housing established by the UN is guaranteed,” Sedatu said.