Architect Tatiana Bilbao Addresses 'Urgent Need' for Housing Mexico's Poor de zeen
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Tatiana Bilbao presents a flexible building prototype that offers a solution to Mexico's social housing shortage. (Tatiana Bilbao)

The Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao has designed a low-cost house that can be adapted to suit varying numbers of residents, and can be expanded as a family grows. It can also be altered to suit the variety of climates around the country, by using a variety of materials and spatial layouts.

Bilbao says there weren't enough architects developing this kind of project in Mexico, even though the country's housing shortage accounts for approximately nine million homes.

Depending on its size, the local regulations, and location, the home would be priced at a minimum of $8,000 and rise to a maximum of $14,000. (Tatiana Bilbao)

"The problem is there's very little people thinking of developing these things," said the architects, whose previous projects include a rammed-earth house. "It's really a model that is very needed. It is very urgent that these people get spaces with a little bit more quality."

The house model was commissioned by Mexico's government as part of a program that helps people with low incomes to buy their own house, by subsidizing half the cost and offering the rest as credit.

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Related: $8,000 Home Proposed for Mexico (Gizmag)

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