Emergency housing in Ecuador, a co-design didactic experience

The design is often considered as the crossroads of different disciplines. The designer has therefore played an increasing role as coordinator of different skills, assembler of semi-finished materials to be combined in new and specific configurations. In this context, the design of systems for the production of prefabricated systems for the emergency housing is one of the central themes in the global scenario of design industry and project co-operation. The didactic experience, which is shown below, was carried out within a collaborative program between the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Naples "Federico II" and the Technological University UTE Equinoccial Facultad de Arquitectura, Artes y Diseño in Quito. The design activity has been directed to solve a real problem of emergency housing, located in the Ecuadorian reality, through the integration of advanced industrial technologies and local traditional techniques.