Institutional framework, aim and objectives

This experience is developed in the framework of the “Programme of Habitat and Productive Conditions Improvement for Disperse Rural Inhabitants and Small Communities from Chubut”. It aims to: “show the interdisciplinary and inter-sectorial experience developed on sustainable rural housing”, and its objectives are: a) to achieve bioclimatic suitability of the rural popular domestic habitat; b) to adopt appropriate and appropriable architectural technologies and dispositions; c) to promote actions for local development. Within this framework, from 2004, the Housing Provincial Institute-IPV and DU- from Chubut and the Nacional University of Tucuman — UNT-, have had an agreement between the Technological Connection Unit and the Project “Strategies and

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Technologies for a Sustained and Healthy Habitat” of the FAU-SeCyT-, UNT — CONICET) based on pre-existing bonds.