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COLOMBIA,   SANTA ROSA DE CABAL


PROJECT HISTORY Seventy families: we taught them to build a neighborhood for themselves, in the mountains of central Colombia. Originally it started as a project of Construyamos, one of the largest self help housing cooperatives in Latin America, with an excellent track record of building mass-produced, low-cost housing. Their usual plan was to have eighteen families at a time, forming a group. An architect would draw up a standard house, repeated eighteen times, identically repeated. Hillside, showing Santa Rose families working to lay out their streets and houses.







Plan of this part of the neighborhood

PROJECT HISTORY





Private apartment
entrance at street


CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STRUCTURE
established 1967
and
CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STRUCTURE, EUROPE
established 2005