Housing Surplus Project Presented at GSD

An inter-disciplinary team of students lead by  Felipe Correa (founding director SAP) and Carlos Garciavelez Alfaro are working on new affordable housing prototypes for Rio Grande do Sul. Sponsored by Landinvest, a Sao Paulo based housing agency, the Housing Surplus Project explores how increased density paired with typological diversity and the introduction of collective services can redefine the domestic landscape around consolidated urban edges. The team, composed by Ryley Poblete, Ana Victoria Ciari, Maynard Leon, Miguel Lopez Melendez and Long Zuo, is conceptualizing new block configurations that can break away from the mono- functional rigidity offered by the current affordable housing delivery protocols, exploring how mixed income blocks can help construct income diversity into the affordable housing market. The prototypes will be tested on the ground by Landinvest throughout the course of the summer.