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AMOUNT: $12,000
US
PROJECT LEADERS: Javier Canseco, John F. Mealey
INSTITUTIONS: Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios
Superiores de Monterrey, Campus Hermosillo and Mexicali
and Coachella Valley Housing Coalition (CVHC)
The project partners and collaborators fostered a binational
educational alliance to derive an alternate model to
traditional methods of low-income housing construction
in Mexicali. The project conducted an extensive binational
exploratory research effort and collaboration between
U.S. and Mexican housing professionals and academics,
designed to produce a prototype of a housing program
and mutual self-help method of construction that had
a great impact on the production of homes for very low
paid workers in factories along the border in Mexico.
The project team collaboratively developed an architecture
course that adapted the CVHC’s mutual self-help
method of home construction to meet the social realities
and needs of affordable housing in Mexicali. The long-term
goal of this project was the implementation of mutual
self-housing in Mexicali, B.C.
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