Replacing slums with half a house.

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/read.php?CATEGORY_PK=&TOPIC_PK=2928

http://www.iconeye.com/index.php?view=article&catid=423%3Aicon-067–january-2009&layout=default&id=3895%3Aalejandro-aravena&option=com_content

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"Elemental's contribution to the canon of social housing came from an almost impossible question. In 2003 Aravena was asked to house 100 families in Iquique, a city in northern Chile, with just $7,500 per family in government subsidies to buy the land and build the houses. "We tested ...