Final considerations

With this experience, we aimed to offer a methodological proposal and a set of architectural and technological tools easily applied and appropriated for the improvement of the popular rural habitat of Chubut, Argentina. It has also served to make it possible for the inhabitants to discern about their expectations and skills and to achieve the production of their habitat by means of assisted self­management. That was done by taking advantage of their contexts — natural and cultural — and in order to reconquer people’s dignity through their own effort and mutual help to achieve a sustained local development.

5. Bibliography

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• Garzon, B. Variables Bioclimaticas y uso de la Energia en Viviendas Espontaneas y Oficiales de Interes Social: Analisis y Propuestas. Pags. 113-130. 2005. Red CyTeD. ISBN 972-676-200-6. Editor: Helder Goncalvez, INETI. Lisboa, Portugal.

• Mele, E.; De Benito, L.; Garzon, B.; Piva, R. Rural Bioclimatic Houses Built by the State in Chubut. World Renewable Energy Congress-IX. Pags. 1-6. Florencia, Italia. ABITA Interuniversity Research Center, University of Florence — WREC. Brighton, UK. Agosto, 2006.

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