Keywords
housing
normalization
habitat
adobe bricks
Key Words Plus
Building
adobe - Research - Colombia
Housing projects - Colombia
Low cost housing - Colombia
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Abstract
Although still marginally, architecture built with earth is gettingmore and more attention. The gold mine of building with earth isthe development of sumptuous projects. Although this is importantas well, the risk exists that earth architecture might be seen as anupper class trend. Since ten years, the Tierra Viva foundation isrealizing various projects that seek to position earth as a materialthat is capable of improving quality of life at all levels and at a lowcost. Pilot low-cost housing projects developed in cooperation withgovernments and public institutions are beginning to prove that alegal framework considering building with earth is a social needin Colombia.Apuntes 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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