David O'Brien

Contested incrementalism: Elemental's Quinta Monroy settlement fifteen years on

David O'Brien, Sandra Carrasco

Journal article  |  2021  |  FRONTIERS OF ARCHITECTURAL RESEARCH

Quinta Monroy is an award-winning co-designed settlement for 93 families on half a hectare of land at Iquique in northern Chile. N..

Chapter 12 Incremental housing in Villa Verde, Chile: A view through the Sendai Framework lens

David O'Brien, Sandra Carrasco

Book Chapter  |  2021

Beyond the freedom to build: Long-term outcomes of Elemental’s incremental housing in Quinta Monroy Além da liberdade de construção: resultados de longo prazo da moradia incremental da Elemental na Quinta Monroy

Sandra Carrasco Mansilla, David O'Brien

Journal article  |  2021  |  Urbe : Revista Brasileira de Gestão Urbana

In 2003, the Chilean architecture firm Elemental began to revisit the idea of partially completed housing harnessing the productiv..

Beyond the freedom to build: Long-term outcomes of Elemental's incremental housing in Quinta Monroy

Sandra Carrasco, David O'Brien

Journal article  |  2021  |  URBE-REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE GESTAO URBANA

In 2003, the Chilean architecture firm Elemental began to revisit the idea of partially completed housing harnessing the productiv..

Incremental housing: harnessing informality at Villa Verde

David O'Brien, Sandra Carrasco, Kim Dovey

Journal article  |  2020  |  ARCHNET-IJAR INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURAL RESEARCH

Purpose: This paper analyses the incremental housing process developed at Villa Verde, a housing project designed by the Chilean a..

Revisit Quinta Monroy

David O'Brien, Sandra Carrasco

Journal article  |  2020  |  The Architectural Review

Despite the lofty ambitions of Elemental, in giving agency to the residents, the aspirations for Quinta Monroy failed to appreciat..

Resettlement Challenges for Displaced Populations and Refugees

Book Chapter  |  2019

The main focus of this book is to help better understand the multidimensionality and complexity of population displacement and the..

Urbanism of Emergency: Use and Adaptation of Public Open Spaces in Disaster-Induced Resettlement Sites

Sandra Carrasco, David O'Brien

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  RESETTLEMENT CHALLENGES FOR DISPLACED POPULATIONS AND REFUGEES

Wakathuni Early Learning Center, Bower Studio

D O'Brien

Book Chapter  |  2018

The work chronicled in this book reveals how this type of applied knowledge grounds us in the physicality of the world in which we..

FILLING THE GAPS: MODIFYING MODULAR HOUSING IN CHILE

S Carrasco Mansilla, David O'Brien

Conference Proceedings  |  2018

Standardised and mass-produced houses have attracted the interests of many teams of designers and scholars in the twentieth and tw..