Mele, Edgardo1; De Benito, Liliana2; Garzon; Beatriz[12].

Architect. Chubut Rural Habitat Program Member, Instituto Provincial de la Vivienda de Chubut,

Argentina. edmele@hotmail. com

Architect. Chubut Rural Habitat Program Coordinator, Instituto Provincial de la Vivienda de Chubut,

Argentina. lilianadebenito@yahoo. com. ar

Architect. FAU-SeCyT Universidad Nacional de Tucuman Project Director. CONICET Investigator. Member of Chubut Rural Habitat Program, Instituto Provincial de la Vivienda de Chubut, Argentina.

bgarzon@gmail. com

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to develop a model of management and production of solar houses build by the State so as improve life conditions for rural settlers in three villages in Chubut, in southern Argentina. These dwellings show the development of architectural prototypes, suitable to geographical and climatic rigorous conditions. The prototypes incorporate appropriate technology (soil-cement, rubblework, solar cover collectors, etc.); the possibility of using forms of renewable energies such as solar to heat water or air, to cook, to dry clothes or as aeolian energy to generate electrical energy; the rational use of the firewood as fuel and assisted attended auto-construction. The Methodology selected is the Participative Action Research. It has been used not only to acknowledge this reality but to transform it. The participation of the people involved as well as instruments for changing their reality. The bioclimatic guidelines and strategies as well as the architectural covering and dwellings’ architectural typology for their climate adaptation and the proposed technological systems have been determined and assessed. These houses have built with the conjoint effort of both the beneficiaries working co-operatively and the team of technicians in charge of the project. The realization of this project has been possible thanks to the users’ enthusiastic and highly qualified participation in the appropriation of alternative technological systems. It is thanks to these systems that the necessities and/or environmental, technological, and functional conditions of families and communities have been attended to strengthening at the same time, the concept of belonging and evaluating a re-evaluating a community’s natural and cultural milieus.

Key Words: Domestic Rural Habitat, Sustainable Building Adequateness, Social Interest Solar House.