Elaboración de un contrapiso de tierra pulida como acabado para vivienda social en Cuenca

Abstract

On Ecuador, the population shows a level of overcrowding of 18.2 % in the urban area, and 29.2% in rural area (NEC, 2014). In this context, has generated a housing deficit that has been addressed through massive and highly subsidized construction, with solutions located in the city´s profile, wich has caused the loss of social capital and forced people from the countryside to leave their habitat, away from their families and their social contacts. Cuenca is not the exception, according to data of INEC, 2010, mention that 64.9% of the population of Turi live in poverty, and the 29.41% in extreme poverty. Thus, the alternative of an earthen floor takes strength as a possible solution, with the use of resources of the area, because the villagers invest the scarce money available as a priority in walls, roof, and the floor is the result of the ground on which it sits. Before an explanation of regulations and technical conditions ot earth, it was determined the dosification por creation of prototype and the application of the sealant. In this way you get as a result the development ot two prototypes polished and sealant with linseed oil, that allows the innovation in terms of constructive systems of floors. One of the application system for this prototype is self - construction, so it was developed a manual that allows the user to be guided in each of the steps for the elaboration of a good floor quality.