Low Cost Housing by Means of Eucalyptus Wood

摘要

The document explains a research process and its resulting achievements as anintegral dissertation on the subject of appropriate technology and the feasibility of producing low costs housing by means of eucalyptus timber. The aim of the document is not restricted to the transmission of new knowledge and know-how but make an account of the process that has lead to such new knowledge as well. The dissertation explains a context in which a global housing problem sets a spectrum of needs and responses at professional and non-professional level that is systematically narrowed to the housing problem of informal builders in Lima-Peru and their empirical use of eucalyptus timber as a response. The Eucalyptus Globulus Building Technology is described as a basic technology able to cope with a wide range of sophistications and simplifications in accordance with a potentially diversified housing market.