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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