2003, Alejandro Aravena became famous for this Quinta Monroy project. At that time, each family had only 7500 dollars in housing subsidies, and the cost of land, infrastructure and architecture. At that time in Chile, the money could only build 30 square meters of living space, so Aravena created a flexible half - house (half-homes), only half and empty half space, allowing each household to expand in the future.
he said in an interview, "there are too many architects in the world who are designing huge and magnificent projects, but how many architects are really concerned about the people at the bottom of the society? I think architecture is used to solve problems outside buildings, not their own. "