Making City + Productive Housing Programme in Guatemala & Central America by Posconflicto Laboratory

DECLARATION In the name of those who wash others’ clothes (and flush from their whiteness another’s filth). In the name of those who care for others’ children (and sell their labor in the form of maternal love and humiliations). In the name of those who live in another’s home (no longer a warm hearth but rather a tomb or jail). In the name of those who eat another’s scraps (and still chew them feeling like thieves). In the name of those who live in another’s country (the houses and the factories and the businesses and the streets and the cities and the towns and the rivers and the lakes and the volcanoes and the mountains always belong to others and thus the police and the guards are there protecting them from us). In the name of those who have nothing more than hunger, exploitation, sickness, thirst for justice and water, persecutions, imprisonment, solitude, abandonment, oppression, death. I accuse private property of depriving us of everything.* Roque Dalton

*Roque Dalton’s Acta or Declaration (El Salvador, 1961; translated by Carrie Comer, 2011) in its accusation of deprival, fundamentally captures Central America’s armed conflict during the Cold War. In this post-conflict period, we believe the city as a project of productive cohabitation is central to providing critical meaning to the 1996 Guatemalan Peace Accords.

Preconflicto, a photomontage of ‘Glorious Victory’ (Diego Rivera, 1954; photograph courtesy of the Secretariat of the Presidency, Republic of Guatemala) and housing units at Lafayette Park, Detroit (Ludwig Hilberseimer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 1956). Composed by a—c—t—a, 2011. Starting from architecture, Lafayette Park proposed a crossed subsidy model with market apartments and housing cooperatives. A parallel history, the 1954 coup d’état —a CIA covert operation codenamed Operation PBSUCCESS— brought an end to 10 years of democratic progressive reform in Guatemala. A thirty-six year civil war (1960-1996) followed.

By: URBANÍSTICA—Taller del Espacio Público, Municipality of Guatemala Asociación Centroamericana Taller de Arquitectura (a—c—t—a) First edition April 2012 www.posconflicto-laboratory.org

HOUSING, PRODUCTION AND CITY Decalogue Metropolitan Housing and Urban Development Agency

MAKING CITY Making City Aurora-Ca単as Central Corridor (ACCC) Urban Projects

PRODUCTIVE HOUSING PROGRAMME Subsidiarity Housing Deficit Target Social Group Productivity Cooperative Housing Model Collaborative Workshops

OPERATIONS Operations Case Study Pilot Project A and Pilot Project B Projects in Guatemala City & Central America

APPENDIX Timeline Activities of the Posconflicto Laboratory Collaborators of the Posconflicto Laboratory

Guatemala

CENTRAL AMERICA

PREFACE With the signing of the Peace Accords between the Government of Guatemala and the URNG in 1996, Central America’s last armed conflict came to an end. Thirty six years of civil war left behind more than 450 villages destroyed, over one million people displaced and over 200,000 people dead. As a portrait of Central America, the region with the highest income inequality in the world, 56% of Guatemalans live with an income level below the poverty line and over half live deprived from adequate housing. In a post-conflict political situation, in spite of efforts in plans and policies, Central America has yet to revert a structural housing deficit. Here and now, we declare the urgent necessity of a project to rethink architecture, the city and the idea of the political. Here and now, we propose a Productive Housing Programme, with a pilot project in Guatemala City, directed towards the construction of a national and Central American housing policy. Here and now, we introduce as a breakthrough the Metropolitan Housing and Urban Development Agency of Guatemala. Here and now, we present a project to make city and guarantee housing access to all —especially the most disfavoured and vulnerable. ‘Posconflicto Laboratory: Making City + Productive Housing Programme in Guatemala & Central America’ is a project developed by URBANÍSTICA—Taller del Espacio Público of the Municipality of Guatemala, the Government of Guatemala, the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala and the Asociación Centroamericana Taller de Arquitectura (a—c—t—a).

HOUSING, PRODUCTION AND CITY

DECALOGUE Housing, Production and City 1.

We propose housing as a spearhead of social justice.

Beyond shelter, housing is a project of productive space.

Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not bypass housing and the street as an inseparable part of citizenship.

Urbanization has been redefined: the urban has become rural, the field has become city.

Against sprawl, to clarify the limit and integrate marginality.

Housing and production streamline the territory, and enhance the local and the spontaneous.

Self-management in the city and cooperation in the field.

Housing and the production of the common starts from landscape and redefines the city.

It is NOT a conservative project, it is NOT a liberal project.

10. We advocate a new social contract: to provide renewed content to the Peace Accords.

METROPOLITAN HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT AGENCY The Metropolitan Housing and Urban Development Agency, voted by the Guatemalan City Council on January 11th 2012 and published in the Official Gazette on February 3rd, emerges as the institution in charge of implementing the Productive Housing Programme, while developing strategic urban projects as positive drivers for making city.

MAKING CITY “There was a space in the city that was forgotten, residual and marginal. A space that architecture and traditional urban planning had been neglected. Needed to address the architecture of nowhere and show that the empty space is the area which gives the condition of city, as a project of all. That is the proposal that URBANÍSTICA has installed in the urban debate and especially in the mind of ordinary citizens. ” Álvaro Véliz

1. Plaza Mayor y Núcleo Central 2. Avenida Simeón Cañas 3. Cerro del Carmen 4. Paseo de la Sexta 5. Paseo de la 18 Calle 6. Cantón Exposición

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Guatemala City metropolitan urban centre. Photography: Municipality of Guatemala

AURORA-CAÑAS CENTRAL CORRIDOR 1. Plaza Mayor and Núcleo Central 3. Cerro del Carmen 5. Paseo de la Sexta 7. Cantón Exposición

2. Avenida Simeón Cañas 4. Paseo Jocotenango 6. Paseo de la 18 Calle, Amate and Plaza Barrios

Photography: AndrĂŠs Asturias

Photography: Werner Sol贸rzano

Photography: AndrĂŠs Asturias

Photography: Werner Sol贸rzano

Photography: AndrĂŠs Asturias

PRODUCTIVE HOUSING PROGRAMME

SUBSIDIARITY AS A POLITICAL PACT As a condition to its existence, the Productive Housing Programme reintalls the principle of subsidiarity integrated into a renewed post-conflict political pact, promoting participation of diferent stakeholders from the public sector, community and traditional and emerging private sector. Subsidiary action launches a cross-subsidy model, which is guaranteed through the actions of a new agency in charge of the program.

PEACE ACCORDS 1996 2 Economic Aspects and Agrarian Situation Accord Section D of Section II “...we recognize the need to carry out a policy of encouraging the construction of affordable housing through appropriate financing systems in order that with priority the greatest number of guatemalan families may have as property…” “...allowing access of the poor to housing with services and hygiene and environmental sustainability conditions...” “...coordinate with municipalities to uniform, clear and simplified standards for the construction and supervision, to ensure good quality and housing safety...”

CROSSED SUBSIDY The Productive Housing Programme implements a transfer model of financial resources to close the chronic gap of housing demand and supply of the popular sectors, neglected by public policy. The sustainability of the financial model is ensured by a crossed subsidy system, based on a revenue-sharing model with two operations. Project B —or the subsidiary operation— undertakes a market-driven housing development and targets a middle income group and supports Project A —or the subsidized operation— that targets the most disfavoured and vulnerable.

State Agreements, signed by the Government of Guatemala and the Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca (URNG), between 1991 and 1996, to reach peaceful solutions to major problems that generated an armed conflict. The confrontation lasted more than thirty years and left a balance in dead or missing in excess of 200,000 people (Commission for Historical Clarification, 1999).

URBANIZATION

-70

-80 -67

-50

-30 -14

-15

-10

-60

Homes built with low quality materials (%)

QUANTITY DEFICIT

(homes)

225,000

112,500

cohabited

insecure ownership

hovels

insecure walls

-7

-8

-20

-24

-25

-27

-40

-34

-41

-43

Guatemala Bolivia Paraguay Ecuador El Salvador Dominican Republic Panama Honduras Colombia Nicaragua Mexico Venezuela Peru Chile Costa Rica Argentina Brazil

0.0

-69

Housing Deficit

Source: UNDP, Human Development Report, 2010

-3.5

14%

waterless -2.3

-2.0

-1.5

drainless

15%

0.33% insecure roofs

-1.0

earth floors

-0.5

38%

overcrowded

-0.4

-0.5

-0.6

-0.7

-0.8

-0.9

-1.0

-1.1

-1.4

-1.7

-1.8

-2.5

-2.4

-3.0

0.0

Persons per room

QUALITY DEFICIT

(homes)

225,000

112,500

Guatemala Nicaragua El Salvador Panama Paraguay Peru Honduras Argentina Colombia Venezuela Uruguay Ecuador Bolivia Dominican Republic Mexico Chile Brazil Costa Rica

Photography: AndrĂŠs Asturias

Target Social Group

Photography: Werner Sol贸rzano

PRODUCTIVE HOUSING Mixed-use programmes creatively integrate residential spaces with family-based productive activities, connected to emerging urban economies. In facilitating peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s access to the means of production, housing can improve the conditions of the city and region. This offers the community ways to enhance productivity and creativity in an environment that is still connected to their housing (Community Development Centre).

Productive Housing: Subsidiarity as a Political Pact, 2011

Comprehensive Housing Cooperative “El Esfuerzo Solidario”, COVIESO, R. L.

Cooperative Housing Model

Self-management housing cooperatives provide an organizational model that allows access to an adequate house, and the strengthening of a sense of community. The self-management cooperative model has been successfully implemented in Uruguay since the 60’s, and has then followed in Bolivia, Paraguay and Central America. Cooperative housing’s pillars are: self-management, mutual aid and collective property. Technical assitance is provided by institutional partners.

“HOUSING IS A RIGHT AND NOT A COMMODITY” Swedish Cooperative Centre (SCC)

COLLABORATIVE WORKSHOPS Pilot Project A The pilot project, currently under development, acknowledges an inclusive participatory process, informed by the capacity, creativity and strength of the existing community. We believe that collaborative workshops can provide a common ground for the community and the architect, a space for sharing ideas, creativity, knowledge and skills. In the first stage of work in La Ceiba IV in Zone 18, three workshops were held, which allowed for an initial opportunity to approach and get to know the community. Basic needs both in terms of individual/family living spaces as well as collective spaces were discussed, and new scenarios about how to occupy those spaces were brainstormed.

WORKSHOP 1: Community outreach Workshop 1 sought to facilitate community outreach through an initial meeting between residents and the project design team. One of its main goals was to get to know the basic features of the community: its history, its organization and the characteristics of its residents. The workshop also sought to identify the future aspirations of the people, both for their homes and for their neighbourhood.

Photography: Werner Sol贸rzano

This workshop reconstructed the history of the community, the socio-economic situation of the families, a statistical survey with the basic community data and a study of basic needs.

Photography: Werner Sol贸rzano

WORKSHOP 2: Defining community resources The second workshop aimed to deepen the discussion about the communityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basic needs, emphasizing the needs for collective spaces as expressed in the first workshop primary future goals. First, a discussion was facilitated to deepen the communityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reflection on common spaces and their relation to housing. This was then linked to the possibility of improving general living conditions, in addition to economic, social and political developments. The result was a balanced list of resource and collective space needs. The community prioritized the need for a cultural space, followed by a recreational area, a community hall and a place for trainings and workshops.

Photography: Werner Sol贸rzano

WORKSHOP 3: Spatial scenarios The third workshop aimed to envision potential land use scenarios on how to distribute land between collective and residential spaces. The community’s priorities around resources and needs, determined in the second workshop, were considered for the collective spaces: a neighborhood development center that could function as a common, cultural, training and/or productive space, as well as an outdoor sporting field.

Photography: Werner Solórzano

During the activity, small groups worked to design models from the community’s proposals for the distribution of common and residential spaces. Their models were based on the community’s land, and considered the possibility of both maintaining single-family housing in multi-story buildings, as well as multi-family dwellings in order to give way to collective facilities. Several land use scenarios resulted from the workshop, which reflected the aspirations of the community.

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Laboratory

Posconflicto Laboratory

MAKING CITY + PRODUCTIVE HOUSING PROGRAMME IN GUATEMALA & CENTRAL AMERICA

Here and now we declare

Here and now we propose a

Here and now we introduce

Here and now we present

Here and now.

the urgent necessity of a project to rethink architecture, the city and the idea of the political.

Productive Housing Programme, with a pilot project in Guatemala City, directed towards the construction of a national and Central American housing policy. as a breakthrough, the Metropolitan Housing and Urban Development Agency of Guatemala.

a project to make city and guarantee housing access to all â&#x20AC;&#x201D;especially the most disfavoured and vulnerable.

Photography: Byron Mรกrmol

HOUSING DEFICIT

LAND VALUE

QUANTITY DEFICIT*

(homes)

QUALITY DEFICIT*

HOUSING DEFICIT

112,500

5% 0

(homes)

38%

225,000

cohabited

insecure ownership

hovels

insecure walls

Quantity deficit (16%)

Quality deficit (35%)

AREA BY LAND VALUE (has)

39%

33%

€53 6%

6% €53

€109

€214

€375

€109

€214

drainless

earth floors

insecure roofs

overcrowded

(homes) 53%

2.500 0

waterless

HOMES BY LAND VALUE

€ / sq m

16%

8% 0.33%

Total homes

5.000

112,500

15%

14%

Total deficit 723,000 (100 %)

225,000

€375

112,500 30%

9% €53

56,250 7%

€109

€214

€375

1% more

0 0

0.25

0.5

2km

SITE A

SITE B

PILOT PROJECT A’s SITE

PILOT PROJECT B’s SITE

Photography: Werner Sol贸rzano

Photography: AndrĂŠs Asturias

Here and now

SUBJECT A’s Income 1 to 4 Minimum Wages per Household

PROJECT A’s

Capital

10% 30% 60%

Mutual Aid—weekly on-site labour Monthly Fair Share—includes commercial spaces, productive areas and housing quotas Subsidy—from Project B’s market surplus operation

Subject b’s Income 5 to 15 Minimum Wages per Household

PROJECT B’s Capital

Photography: Byron Mármol

Land—public or private property Rent—extended productive spaces Retail—includes the selling of housing units, commercial and parking spaces Surplus—necessary subsidy for Project A’s capital counterpart

PROJECT A

The Co-Operation Project A, the subsidized operation, allows low-income families to access adequate housing and at the same time develop productive activities on-site, while integrating into central urban areas. Project A’s target social group are families currently living in conditions of poverty and marginalization, with a monthly income between one and four times the minimum wage per household (€190 to €760) and no access to market housing. The project is organized into a selfmanaged cooperative based on mutual aid and collective property. Pilot Project A is scheduled to begin construction in October 2012.

community development centre

patio-portico

housing prototype

PILOT PROJECT A

San Rafael Avenue, Zone 18, Guatemala City

56 30 11 1

Housing Units—54m2 Cooperative Productive Spaces—16m2 Commercial Spaces—14m2 Community Development Centre—665m2

Plot Size—3,755m2 productive housing archetype

PROJECT B

The Market Operation Project B, the subsidiary operation, allows middle income families to access quality housing in central urban areas benefited by public sector urban recovery projects. Project B’s target social group is the segment of the population currently renting with very limited options in the housing market, with monthly incomes between five and fifteen times the minimum wage per household (€940 to €2,850). The profit generated by this market operation provides the necessary capital counterpart to subsidize Project A. Pilot Project B is scheduled to begin construction in February 2013.

communal facility

patio-portico

housing prototype

PILOT PROJECT B

10th Avenue, Zone 1, Guatemala City

56 Housing Units—21 of 45m2 29 of 54m2 6 of 108m2 27 Extended Productive Spaces—16m2 21 Commercial Spaces—54m2 1 Social Facility—950m2

Plot Size—3,719m2

productive housing archetype

productive housing (co-operation)

15 m

productive housing (market operation) 0

15 m

15m

Pilot Project A Housing Prototype

Pilot Project B Housing Prototype

Housing Prototype

Composed Housing Prototype

4 Productive Housing (Co-Operation)

1 0 0.5

Housing Prototype

Composed Housing Prototype

2 Productive Housing (Market Operation)

3 0 0.5

A 6

A 5 A

A 2

A 4

A 3

A 1

A 5

Living Units + Productive Space (Co-Operation)

A 3

A 4

A 2

A 1

AP PS

Productive Space (Co-Operative)

Commercial Podium

Living Units + Productive Space (Market Operation)

B6 B6

Productive Space (Market Operative)

Commercial Podium

Housing Prototype

Parking

Housing Prototype

PRODUCTIVE HOUSING PROGRAMME

GUATEMALA CITY

PRODUCTIVE HOUSING PROGRAMME

GUATEMALA CITY

LABOUR POWER

0.25

0.5

2km

STRATEGIC PROJECTS

in Minimum Wages per Household*

Crossed Subsidy Model

1 to 2

3 to 4

5 to 15

16 to 21

22 to 42

12,000 hh

65,000 hh

72,000 hh

43,000 hh

29,500 hh

Transmetro line

Projected line

Transmetro station

Squatting settlement

Municipal boundary

Subsidiary Market Housing

Subsidized Subsidiary Cooperative Housing

LABOUR POWER

Pilot Pilot Project

0.25

0.5

2km

STRATEGIC PROJECTS

in Minimum Wages per Household*

Crossed Subsidy Model

1 to 2

3 to 4

5 to 15

16 to 21

22 to 42

12,000 hh

65,000 hh

72,000 hh

43,000 hh

29,500 hh

Transmetro line

Projected line

Transmetro station

Squatting settlement

Municipal boundary

Subsidized Cooperative Housing

Subsidiary Market Housing

Pilot Project

PRODUCTIVE HOUSING PROGRAMME

GUATEMALA

PRODUCTIVE HOUSING PROGRAMME

GUATEMALA

LAT 14.6598° LON -90.4421°

GUATEMALA CITY

LAT 14.6609° LON -90.5110°

GUATEMALA CITY

LAT 14.6641° LON -90.4848°

GUATEMALA CITY

LAT 14.6677° LON -90.4678°

GUATEMALA CITY

LAT 14.6517° LON -90.4698°

GUATEMALA CITY

LAT 14.6453° LON -90.4918°

GUATEMALA CITY

LAT 14.6483° LON -90.5212°

GUATEMALA CITY

LAT 14.6395° LON -90.5010°

GUATEMALA CITY

LAT 14.6306° LON -90.5055°

GUATEMALA CITY

LAT 14.6404° LON -90.5453°

GUATEMALA CITY

LAT 14.6261° LON -90.5412°

GUATEMALA CITY

LAT 14.6181° LON -90.5349°

GUATEMALA CITY

LAT 14.5896° LON -90.5327°

GUATEMALA CITY

LAT 14.5784° LON -90.5142°

GUATEMALA CITY

LAT 14.5500° LON -90.5562°

GUATEMALA CITY

LAT 14.5453° LON -90.5487°

GUATEMALA CITY 0 5

120m

LAT 14.6381º LON -90.5109º

GUATEMALA CITY

LAT 14.6479º LON -90.5095º

GUATEMALA CITY

LAT 14.6284º LON -90.5140º

GUATEMALA CITY

LAT 14.6424º LON -90.5154º

GUATEMALA CITY

LAT 14.6306º LON -90.4922º

GUATEMALA CITY

LAT 14.6319º LON -90.5222º

GUATEMALA CITY

LAT 14.6239º LON -90.5170º

GUATEMALA CITY

LAT 14.6225º LON -90.4999º

GUATEMALA CITY

LAT 14.6136º LON -90.5223º

GUATEMALA CITY

LAT 14.6064º LON -90.5163º

GUATEMALA CITY

LAT 14.6025º LON -90.5143º

GUATEMALA CITY

LAT 14.6020º LON -90.5155º

GUATEMALA CITY

LAT 14.5955º LON -90.5185º

GUATEMALA CITY

LAT 14.5947º LON -90.5148º

GUATEMALA CITY

LAT 14.5846º LON -90.4943º

GUATEMALA CITY

LAT 14.6065º LON -90.5569º

GUATEMALA CITY 0 5

120m

PRODUCTIVE HOUSING PROGRAMME

CENTRAL AMERICA

PRODUCTIVE HOUSING PROGRAMME

CENTRAL AMERICA

LAT 13.7014° LON -89.1561°

SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR

LAT 14.0942º LON -87.1528º

TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS

LAT 12.1156° LON -86.2413°

MANAGUA, NICARAGUA

LAT 9.9537° LON -84.0804°

SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA

LAT 13.7321° LON -89.2242°

SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR

LAT 14.0979° LON -87.2121°

TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS

LAT 12.1062° LON -86.2207°

MANAGUA, NICARAGUA

LAT 9.9655° LON -84.0199°

SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA

LAT 13.7202° LON -89.1914°

SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR

LAT 14.0645° LON -87.2197°

TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS

LAT 12.1146° LON -86.2250°

MANAGUA, NICARAGUA

LAT 9.9227° LON -84.0940°

SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA

LAT 17.2488º LON -88.7781º

BELMOPAN, BELIZE

LAT 17.2498º LON -88.7518º

BELMOPAN, BELIZE

LAT 9.0589° LON -79.4983°

PANAMA CITY, PANAMA

LAT 9.0741° LON -79.4902°

PANAMA CITY, PANAMA 0 5

120m

LAT 13.7012° LON -89.2286°

SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR

LAT 14.0935º LON -87.1690º

TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS

LAT 12.1348º LON -86.2998º

MANAGUA, NICARAGUA

LAT 9.9206º LON -84.0611º

SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA

LAT 13.7099° LON -89.1973°

SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR

LAT 14.1010º LON -87.1738º

TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS

LAT 12.1455º LON -86.2760º

MANAGUA, NICARAGUA

LAT 9.9389º LON -84.0595º

SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA

LAT 13.7061° LON -89.2073°

SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR

LAT 14.1001º LON -87.1771º

TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS

LAT 12.1385º LON -86.2831º

MANAGUA, NICARAGUA

LAT 9.9253° LON -84.0866°

SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA

LAT 17.2485º LON -88.7576º

BELMOPAN, BELIZE

LAT 17.2536º LON -88.7664º

BELMOPAN, BELIZE

LAT 9.0118° LON -79.5111°

PANAMA CITY, PANAMA

LAT 9.0061° LON -79.5207°

PANAMA CITY, PANAMA 0 5

120m

APPENDIX

Cooperation with the national university, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala

Vacant Land Research for the Central Zone as an Alternative for Accessible Housing Development in Guatemala City Aurora-Cañas Central Corridor’s Technical Cooperation with the support of Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)

Housing as an Urban Project component

Working Agreement framework for the development of the Aurora-Cañas Central Corridor

2011

February

Productive Housing Workshop and ‘Green Book’ publication

Advisory Board Workgroup Central Government Workgroup March

Initial analysis of Project A and Project B

Productive Housing Programme proposal Advisory Board Workgroup formalized

April

CounterSite Application for the 5th IABR

May First IHS meeting

Posconflicto Laboratory selected as a 5th IABR’s CounterSite Beginning of Posconflicto Laboratory

June

July

Making City Workshop and catalogue publication in Guatemala City

Beginning of IADB’s Housing Programme Technical Cooperation with the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS)

First Working Mission of IHS Consultants

Design Workshop Launch

August Second Working Mission of IHS Consultants

Institutional and Financial Model: Productive Housing Programme IHS Introductory Presentation to the Mayor September

Legal model established Analysis of Project A at the community La Ceiba IV

Design Workshops

Historical research for medium density housing in Guatemala City

October

Participation at the 5th IABR’s Urban Meetings

Collaborative Workshops at La Ceiba IV Community Architecture Jury 2nd Workshop Review Workshop 1: Community Outreach Workshop 2: Defining Community Resources Workshop 3: Spatial and Communal Scenarios Completion of IADB’s Housing Programme Technical Cooperation

November

Productive Housing System Development Prototype Proposal La Ceiba IV case study publication IDESAC Cooperative Meeting and Seminar

December

Architecture Jury 3rd Workshop Review Visit to self-management housing cooperatives in El Salvador

Cooperative Housing Model Incorporation Presentation to the Mayor of Guatemala City, Advisory Workgroup and Municipal Directors Presentation to the Housing and Human Settlements Committee

2012

at the Central American Integration System (SICA), El Salvador

January

Workshop 4: Presentation of Productive Housing System to La Ceiba IV Community

Posconflicto Laboratory Press Release

The Guatemala City Council votes in favor of creating the Metropolitan Housing and Urban Development Agency Coordination with IDESAC and the Swedish Cooperative Centre for the Cooperative Housing Model implementation Presentation to the Guatemalan Construction Chamber

February

Legal publication and constitution of the Metropolitan Housing and Urban Development Agency of Guatemala Integration between the Productive Housing Programme and the System of Centralities, Rings and Corridors of Guatemala City Project A and Project B preliminary land portfolio Visit to self-management housing cooperatives in Guatemala City

March

Inaugural Lecture at the Architecture Faculty, USAC ‘Productive Housing Programme in Guatemala’

Archetype Proposal Presentation to the Planning Committee of the Municipality of Guatemala

Presentation to the Central American Housing Association (ACENVI) Land plot analysis for Pilot Project A and Pilot Project B

Preliminary Meeting with the Board of Directors Exhibition content final definition

April

Dual Management Integration (Planning and Managerial) 5th IABR Exhibition Charter of the Metropolitan Housing and Urban Development Agency of Guatemala

Board Conformation

May

Portfolio of Urban Development Projects

Construction systems development Pilot Project A, Construction drawings Pilot Project A, Cooperative productive plan Pilot Project A, Subject profile Funding sources formalization

June Advisory Council conformation Pilot Project B, Real estate business plan conclusion Pilot Project A, Pre-cooperative constitution Municipal land property registration to the Metropolitan Housing and Urban Development Agency of Guatemala

July

August

Community Development Centre proposal Four year Business Plan Consolidation of institutional partnerships

Self-managment training, housing pre-cooperative Skills and qualification seminars, housing cooperative Communication Strategy

Pilot Project B, Construction drawings Pilot Project B, Business plan

September Pilot Project B, Subject profile

October

Pilot Project A The Subsidized Operation Construction works begin!

Pilot Project B, Bidding process begins Pilot Project B, Confirmation of financial credit

November

Next Generation Project A, Construction drawings Next Generation Project A, Business plan Next Generation Project A, Subject profile

December

Pilot Project B, Bidding process of Commercial Spaces begins

Municipal land property exchange as initial capital concluded 2nd Step of Business Plan: Land aquisition along Transmetro Line

2013

January Pilot Project B, Bidding process selection Pilot Project B, Bidding process selection of Commercial Spaces Next Generation Project B, Construction drawings Next Generation Project B, Business plan Next Generation Project B, Subject profile

February

Pilot Project B The Subsidiary Operation Construction works begin!

March

April

Collaborators of the

Posconflicto Laboratory

MAKING CITY + PRODUCTIVE HOUSING PROGRAMME IN GUATEMALA & CENTRAL AMERICA INSTITUTIONS Initiating parties URBANÍSTICA—Taller del Espacio Público, Municipality of Guatemala Asociación Centroamericana Taller de Arquitectura (a—c—t—a) Alliance Municipality of Guatemala Foreign Ministry of Guatemala Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala With support from Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS) Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)

Guatemala City CounterSite MAKING CITY 5th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam April 2012 www.posconflicto-laboratory.org

CREDITS Direction Roberto Soundy Asociación Centroamericana Taller de Arquitectura (a—c—t—a) Álvaro Véliz URBANÍSTICA—Metropolitan Housing and Urban Development Agency Municipality of Guatemala Deputy-Direction Rossana García Ovalle Silvia García Vettorazzi Urban Management Ana Cintrón URBANÍSTICA—Metropolitan Housing and Urban Development Agency Municipality of Guatemala CounterSite General Design Coordination Erick Mazariegos Housing Programme Coordination Eva Campos Communications Coordination Werner Solórzano Design Participants Gustavo González Hans Schwarz Felipe Vásquez Jorge Villatoro and also Rafael Aycinena Frank Carrascoza Diego Castillo Mónica Santos Emilio Vargas Institutional Partners Álvaro Arzú Mayor of Guatemala City Rita Claverie Deputy Foreign Minister, Government of Guatemala Estuardo Gálvez Rector of the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala Institutional Workgroups Mariano Ventura, Housing Promoting Group Héctor Cifuentes, Secretary General Municipality of Guatemala Raúl Monterroso, General Planning Coordination Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala Other Contributors / Consultants Daniel Matta, Municipality of Guatemala—legal policy Alonso Ayala, IHS—institutional development Carlos Morales-Schechinger, IHS—land policy Roberto Bianchi—space and finance Marco Vivar, Equilibrio Arquitectos—architecture development Carlos Ayala—architecture history Exhibition Collaborators Byron Mármol—video portraits Cut and Sheet—prototype and archetype models Estudio A2—photography and visual material S.o.P.a.—bizarre videos Studio Invitro—introductory video A special thanks to Jean-Marie Simon—documentary photography: Guatemala: Eterna Primavera, Eterna Tiranía Joaquín Orellana—soundscapes: Ramajes de una Marimba Imaginaria and Cajita de Alegres Penas

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Photography: Byron Mรกrmol

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