Housing Shaped by Labour: The Architecture of Scarcity in Informal Settlements - Softcover

Chagas Cavalcanti, Ana Rosa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3868595341 ISBN 13: 9783868595345

Verlag: JOVIS Verlag, 2018

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Reseña del editor

This book shares the results of a decennial research aimed at finding housing solutions for unprivileged people in informal settlements of Brazil. To understand the spatial logics of these settlements, the author also lived in some of them. The participative observation revealed, that labour is the social practice which mostly designs, shapes and governs the spaces of informal settlements. The study shows how labour is a priority for people struggling with their physical survival, which overcomes those aesthetic, comfort and hygienic standards current architecture practice is entirely concerned about. Alongside the right to housing we must integrate the right to work, and labour must become the social variable in the design of housing solutions in the context of informal settlements. From theoretical discussions up to the operative realm of architecture in the global south, this book presents both the approach and challenges to better housing residents living in informal settlements.

Biografía del autor

Ana Rosa Chagas Cavalcanti studied architecture and urbanism in Brazil (2004-2009, UFAL). Her thesis on the relation of work practices of residents of Informal Settlements, an embedded research in the Favela Sururu de Capote, culminated with a graduation with distinction and an indication to Opera Prima 2009 (prize for best Brazilian graduation thesis). She worked at Bijari (2010) and at Triptyque Architecture (2011). In 2012, she concluded her Master (La Sapienza/ ENSA Paris-Val-de-Seine) and in 2013, she worked as guest researcher on Urban Design at University of Hamburg. She is currently a Ph.D. Candidate at the TUDelft where she ocasionally lecture in the Department of Architecture and Department of Urbanism. Her research investigates design within the existing context of informal settlements or in the context of resetlement of residents from informal settlement to housing units. Research areas are focused on social and spatial practices. Furthermore, she was awarded the first prize in the architectural competition 72HUA (Terni, 2012) and has exhibited urban interventions at some architecture exhibitions, such as IBA Hamburg (2013) and the Biennial of Public Spaces (Rome,2015). https://www.anarosachagascavalcanti.com/index.php/about

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• Verlag: JOVIS Verlag
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 3868595341
• ISBN 13: 9783868595345
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 200