Decent housing is a fundamental human right. It crystallizes when it is possible to build and inhabit a quality work in which the built is combined, in an adequate and harmonious relationship, with the needs, economic possibilities, security and comfort of its inhabitants and the environment that surrounds them.
Such is one of the goals of architecture, which is achieved and reflected in the book Sustainable social housing projects, Tequila, Mexico, which brings together 16 innovative proposals for aesthetic, comfortable, safe homes that can be self-built in a progressive and economical.
This work presents the finalist projects of the 1st. International Competition for the Conceptual Design of Sustainable Social Housing, organized by ITESO and the Beckmann Foundation, which brought together professionals and students of architecture, civil engineering, design and related areas, to develop functional homes that used recycled materials derived from agave-tequila productive chain, such as agave bagasse or fiber, wood from barrels and glass from waste bottles.
Students, professors and professionals of architecture and specialties related to sustainability and social management of the habitat will find in this volume a valuable compendium of new and effective ways of creating social housing, which contribute to the solution of the precarious situation. in which millions of families live due to the current housing model in our cities.