Low Income Housing in Chile

Architects at elemental got a commission to build 100 units of low income housing in chile. The most straightforward and cost effective way to house all 100 families was to cram everyone into big block style apartments. So they came up with tall, rectangular houses, separated by empty space. Each unit was just big enough to meet chiley's minimum standards for low income housing. Then the residents could, on their own time however they wanted, expand into the empty space next to them.