The Experimental Housing Project (Previ). Conception, development, analysis of results and future prospects.

Abstract

In 1967, Peru and the United Nations agreed to conduct a housing pilot project aimed to finding solutions to help solve the housing plight of Lima, as a capital city home to a third of the country's population. A previous study identified the existing problems that the United Nations Program for Development (UNDP), compromise their participation to consider that reality was similar in other capitals of developing countries. Four pilot projects were developed and built. The Pilot Project I (PP1) is best known because it was the occasion of an international competition involving 13 foreign teams and 28 Peruvian teams specialized in this subject. The current situation in Peru and Latin America invite to review if some of the proposals would be viable today. In proposing the relationship between concepts such as progressive growth, technologies used, the economic situation in Peru, and comparing the present with the time of the contest, it seems possible to emphasize the importance and feasibility of the proposals PREVI PPI, which is presented as a possible option for low cost housing programs.