ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/920082/social-housing-production-exercise-i-inhabitants-of-tepetzintan-plus-comunal-architecture-workshop Tue, 02 Jul 2019 08:00:00 +0000 Clara Ott https://www.archdaily.com/920082/social-housing-production-exercise-i-inhabitants-of-tepetzintan-plus-comunal-architecture-workshop The Nahua community of Tepetzintan, located in the Northeast Highlands of Puebla, had two apparently isolated problems. On one hand, there was a lack of housing appropriate to the location, the climate and the uses and customs of the region. On the other hand, the bamboo growing in the region was considered an obstruction to the corn and coffee plantations for which it was removed from the plots without given any use. How could these two challenges be connected? 

]]> https://www.archdaily.com/868726/vivienda-en-puebla-comunal-taller-de-arquitectura Mon, 10 Apr 2017 11:00:00 +0000 Sabrina Leiva https://www.archdaily.com/868726/vivienda-en-puebla-comunal-taller-de-arquitectura In February 2016 the National Housing Commission, CONAVI (for its acronym in Spanish), renewed its operating rules for providing federal subsidies. New regulations established that the use of traditional materials and constructive systems such as bamboo, straw, bajareque, palm, carrizo and wood, is considered precarious, denying access to federal funds to self-construction practices with these materials.

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