Industrialized wood housing

Experimental housing

The following research focuses on the use of a modular industrialized wood construction system, which provides social housing and medium height buildings with housing welfare and energy efficiency. The thesis takes as a case study the city of Coyhaique. It is currently the most polluted city in America according to a WHO report published in 2016, due to its geography that keeps the population enclosed, accumulating the smoke produced by the use of firewood for heating homes.

The use of wood as a base material is proposed, linking an efficient construction method and a material with an environmentally friendly life cycle. The main objective of this experimental proposal is to demonstrate the usefulness of a prefabricated modular system, coupled with the resources of bioclimatic architecture to deliver greater energy efficiency to traditional construction. The study aims to generate tools to create high standard social housing, low energy demand and thermal insulation systems suitable for the city of Coyhaique. The quantitative study investigates the current data that present the energy demand of social housing in this area, in addition to its constructability according to the climatic classification defined in the Chilean thermal regulation since before 2007. This to generate a reconversion of the current techniques and materials used, compared to the proposed industrialized modular system.

This proposal aims to be inserted as a sustainable alternative within the Atmospheric Decontamination Plan for MP10 for Coyhaique and its surrounding area D.S N° 46, of 2016, of the Ministry of Environment.