BIOCONSTRUCTION IN MUTUAL AID HOUSING COOPERATIVE MODESTO ZELEDÓN, MUNICIPALITY OF SAN DIONISIO, MATAGALPA.

Abstract

In ancient times, the first houses and cities were built with raw earth, today, to build homes, materials with high embodied energy are used, which are difficult to recycle and sometimes incorporate toxic elements for families. However, adobe as a construction material is abundantly available in any place or community and without any cost for entrepreneurial families, the advantages are as many as its myths, therefore, the MULTIPRO R.L Professional Services Cooperative decided to launch a pilot project “Adobe House” in the Modesto Zeledón Mutual Aid and Collective Property Housing Cooperative, in the municipality of San Dionisio.

Where the first reinforced Adobe house was designed and built, in the department of Matagalpa, this construction technique allows the fusion of ancestral popular knowledge with the knowledge of modern engineering, therefore, if we analyze the impact of the Adobe House project, in the municipality of San Dionisio, we find many advantages for cooperative families with limited economic resources, especially when we live in a country where a large part of the social production of habitation is carried out improvisedly and with materials that are not very durable. This reality pushes Nicaraguan families to organize themselves into grassroots structures, which allow them to fight against the housing deficit, overcrowding and for decent housing for empowered families.

Being the cooperative movement, a fundamental figure in the productive sector of the national economy, in addition, another of the characteristics of solidarity-based organizations is that through self-management they plan from the design of their homes, to the type of neighborhood in which they would like to reproduce the social construction of the habitat. It is worth mentioning that housing cooperatives develop their activities within a free market economy, competing with their peer, the capital company, but with collective and not individual ownership that guarantees that the beneficiaries of housing projects cannot alienate or seize your real estate.