EXPLORING THE IMPACTS OF PERSONALISATION ON THERMAL EFFICIENCY OF CHILEAN SOCIAL HOUSING

Abstract

The Chilean social housing program is a highly structured system of incentives and rules that although successful in meeting quantitative goals has neglected the quality of its outcomes. Over time, initiatives based upon user participation and self-help action have been disregarded to favour the efficiency of a housing delivery system in which mass production makes addressing diversity problematic, while an emphasis on the rapid delivery of a large number of units has abstracted the attributes of the developments from the requirements of the target households. Nonetheless, self-construction is ubiquitous among these estates, used as informal means to adjust the attributes of the built enviro..