Kompian hospital
Cultural Centre
Anganwadi
Disability day center
Vulnerability and risk: rebuilding communities after disaster
Buiding Communities IV
Educational centre
Restoring and upgrading the old town of Hebron
Dental clinic and blood bank
Hosting city Porto: Call for Ideas
Avieira’s culture legacy
Masterplan of St Francis Javier Hospital Complex
Hosting and social inclusion of migrants in Europe (Youth Programme)
School and housing
Building the Guambian Community
Rehabilitation of the historical and cultural heritage of an oasis
Solidarity Project
Cultural Centre
Educational support centre
Public School
Projet Gabions méditerranée
Earthquake-resistant Housing
Solar Energy for Rural Development
Prison alternatives initiative
Download
Children and staff accomodation
Earth construction and community project
Primary schools
The key RHS Chelsea flower show garden
Veterinary school in saharawi refugee camp
Sustainable development
Vulnerability and risk workshop
Building communities III
Center for children and juveniles
Rural housing
Day care center for drugs addicts
Primary school
Nursery school
Re-cover(y)
Design primer competition for an aids orphanage
Health Care Center
Reconstruction and enlargement of a new day-hospital psychiatric clinic
Education Center for fine arts and handcrafts Desiré Somé
Building houses in recovered land
Underground carpark upgrade into arts-space
Building communities I
New hosting model for migrants and refugees center
Construction of a new surgical ward in St Francis Javier Hospital
Shelter and formation centre for Paysans Sans Frontières
Trebilhadouro
Primary school in Naipa
Period:
2008
Cause:
Research on autoconstruction as a tool for participatory processes
Member:
Technology & material:
Tecnnologies: Beno, batea (Argentina), quincha, domocana (Perù), concrete cupole (Cile); materials: wood, bamboo, earth, bricks, concrete
Partners:
Triennale di Milano, Politecnico di Milano, ESEM
Donor:
ANCE Associazione Nazionale Costruttori Edili
On the occasion of the exhibition “Casa per Tutti” (“Housing for all”) curated by Fulvio Irace, the cultural institution Triennale di Milano and ASF-Italia, together with the Politecnico di Milano and ESEM (Ente Scuola Edile Milanese) promoted the workshop “Building with people. Low cost technologies for developing countries”. The objective was three-fold: to learn, apply and experiment a few technologies from different low-income contexts; to physically build a few housing units that are appropriate to some of the socio-cultural-environmental contexts where ASF-Italia operates; to experience and exchange ideas on different construction techniques that are appropriable by many and can make a powerful medium to facilitate processes of participation and auto-construction of one’s own living environment.
The main reference for the technologies that ASF-Italia tested is the research promoted by the workgroup Casapartes, Cyted (Ciencia y Tecnologia para el Desarrollo): since 1997 Casapartes has been disseminating appropriate and appropriable technologies for the social production of habitat in Latin America.
The workshop was organized into two phases: theoretical seminars, aimed to circumscribe and clarify the issue of housing in low-income areas; the practical activity of building, aimed to experiment and verify technologies and building processes.
All the practical activities were held at Triennale Bovisa and, with the support of video and internet connections, they were part of the exhibition “Casa per Tutti”.