Keywords
participatory design techniques
urban vegetation
urbanization
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Abstract
This paper recognizes the benefits of participatory design techniques for social and sustainablehabitat production and bioclimatic Solutions, balancing the interests of theirbeneficiaries. Methodologically it’s applied community workshops. That tool traditionallyoriented to the housing design, is now applied in the participatory design of urbanspaces and their associated Networks, in a housing project in the province of Mendoza(Argentina). The development of participatory design workshops highlights the importanceof transferring to the beneficiary community plans social housing, the concepts ofbioclimatic architecture and its implications on the people life quality, energy conservationand environmental sustainability. The results indicate that it is possible to reconcilethe urban spaces design with energetic and environmental efficiency, and without additionalcosts and at the same time meet the expectations of users.This journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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