Alejandro Aravena, the Architect Rebuilding a Country

This article says about Alejandro Aravena, an architec from Chile, he is who won a Pritzker by his desings. When Chile was destroyed in 2010 by a earthquake and a tsunami. Aravena was to the disater zone for rebuilding.

He was focusing more by the society, rebuilding their  households, some companies of construction porposed building a dam of protection on the coast, but nevertheless the population weren´t agree. First ther should rebuilding their houses and other important  places like green áreas, parks, etc. Aravena was agree, he like first the places of society aspect.

A example of this is Villa Verde, a project of living place located on north of Chile , it was a porpose in 2003 due to lack of households theses has two nivels and a garden. Other porpose was a project where the plots already they had facilities like wáter, sewer system, gas and electricity, the people could their houses to your taste.

Aravena interviewed to pleople of Villa Verde, a family which was conformed by husband, wife and two children. They bougth only half of house, over time they got to pay the other half, building to your taste.

In this way Aravena has realized that sociality aspect is very important for his desings and that the buildings in Chile are changing the architecture of this nation.

Aravena gives more importance to sociality aspect that his desing and because he has much fame in Chile.