Presentation of the case study
The present study has been carried out in the city of Morelia, which has a warm-temperate climate and is located in the central part of Mexico( Fig. 3). During the last decade, the city of Morelia and neighbouring municipalities have also presented a fast urbanisation grow where many mass industrialised housing developments were built. Table 1 presents the 10 largest housing developments built after the year 2000, which all-together accounts to nearly 40 thousand homes and 50 thousand Inhabitants.
Figure 3: Location of Morelia
Table 1: Low-income housing developments located in the city of Morelia( INEGI, 2011; Matus R. M. and Ramírez A. R., 2013).
Name of the Hosing Development Number of Dwelling Number of Inhabitants
1 |
Conjunto Habitacional Villas del Pedregal |
14000 |
10934 |
2 |
Fraccionamiento Misión del Valle |
5484 |
8663 |
3 |
Villa Magna |
3175 |
4577 |
4 |
Fraccionamiento Galaxia Tarímbaro |
3009 |
5989 |
5 |
Fraccionamiento Metrópolis II |
2998 |
5973 |
6 |
Lomas de la Maestranza |
2572 |
2432 |
7 |
Villas de la Loma |
2057 |
4336 |
8 |
Conjunto Habitacional la Hacienda |
1720 |
1848 |
9 |
Campestre Tarímbaro |
1655 |
2774 |
10 |
Fraccionamiento Hacienda del Sol |
1591 |
1848 |
|
Total |
38261 |
49374 |
The largest housing development in Morelia called“ Villas del Pedregal”, which today has around 14,000 dwellings, has been built using the described industrialised system, based on reinforced concrete formwork. All elements, including both load-bearing and non-load bearing, are poured in place, using lightweight formwork panels. The development is particularly suited for environmental design research as it consists of identical housing designs. The modularity and repeatability of the construction process, together with the extremely large available sample, provide an
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