Villa Marta Brunet and the ontology of inhabiting: habitability of social housing projects in Santiago of Chile

Authors

  • Javier Stockebrand Gómez Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
  • Rafael Stockebrand Gómez Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Abstract

This paper aims to reflect on the construction of social housing from a philosophical assessment of the ontological human being inhabit mode (from the philosophy of Martin Heidegger and Emmanuel Levinas). The purpose is to show that the phenomenon of ‘self-constructing’ in the case study of the villa Marta Brunet from Bajos de Mena (Santiago, Chile) responds to the essential fact ‘inhabit is to interfere with spaces’.

Keywords:

self-construction, villa Marta Brunet, to inhabit, Heidegger, Lévinas