Abstract

JUAREZ SANCHEZ, José Pedro; RAMIREZ VALVERDE, Benito; LOPEZ FUENTES, Mayra  and  ORTEGA LOPEZ, Gabriela. Transformation of Mexican rural housing facing migration. The case of a locality in Puebla, Mexico. Revista Col. San Luis [online]. 2018, vol.8, n.16, pp.203-228.  Epub Aug 14, 2020. ISSN 2007-8846.  https://doi.org/10.21696/rcsl9162018789.

The research´s objective is to carry out a typology, as well as to define the architectural characteristics of rural housing, especially rural neo-housing of migrants. For this purpose, literature on rural housing was reviewed and exploratory-qualitative research based on field observation and photographic analysis was carried out. Among the results, five types of rural housing were found, two of these types have architectural characteristics of the places where the migrants lived. It was discovered that the constructions do not meet the needs of the families they accommodate or the needs of the migrant upon his7her return. That is why some are abandoned. The architectural design of modern housing in a rural landscape has visual effects that could be avoided with an integral architectural design. Lastly, it is concluded that neo-housing should incorporate the characteristics of rural housing with the symbolic and transculturation characteristics to improve its design.

Keywords : Rural space; habitat; migration; transculturation.