Social Housing and COVID-19 pandemic: Validity of adaptability as a planning strategy

Abstract

he Covid 19 pandemic made visible the centrality of the domestic space as an organizar ot the  daily life of Latin American urban societies, even when a large part of the available units does not meet the attributes of the Human Right to adequate housing. Based on this scenario, and from the particular perspective of architecture, this essay asks about adaptability as a qualitative premise of Social Housing: its indispensable consideration as a tool to foreshadow or anticipate increasingly uncertain futures.

From a disciplinary epistemological framework, in which the architectural project is the main instrument for the production of knowledge within the framework of architectural research, a fieldwork is recovered challenged by the experience of going through a pandemic in a local context. As a result, it contributes to the postponed discussion on the role of the planning attributes of Social Housing, as a determinant of its qualitative aspects.