ECOVILLAGE AND HYPERADOBE FOR SOCIAL INTEREST ARCHITECTURE

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.558312301014

• Palavras-chave: Hyperadobe; Ecovillage; Sustainability; Vernacular Architecture; earth construction.

• Keywords: Hyperadobe; Ecovillage; Sustainability; Vernacular Architecture; earth construction.

• Abstract:

  Housing production in Brazil faces historical problems of deficit and denial of access, at least since 1850. Despite being a constitutional right, the housing policies that promise to combat the deficit are not very concrete, mainly due to the lack of understanding that the right to housing is also the right to the city, transportation and a dignified life. Earth, as a material, consists of the oldest constructive element of civilization, with Hiperadobe being a constructive method using earth in a monolithic system, pressed in HDPE bags, in raschel mesh, created by Fernando Pacheco, in 2010. objective to enable and propose the resumption of vernacular construction techniques aligned with new technologies, where bibliographical research and laboratory tests prove that the soil is an excellent constructive material. The high ecological and monetary cost of industrialized materials harms the environment and the low-income population's access to housing, making ecological alternatives, such as land, present themselves as a good habitat constructive method, with hyperadobe being a typology of low cost and easy social appropriation. Ecovillages are niches for innovation and sustainable experimentation, ecosystems based on collectivity, treated as an alternative to housing production beyond the immediacy of quantity and the isolated unit. An Ecovillage of Social Interest, treated under a collective property bias, shows itself as a possibility of creating non-commodified or financialized housing.