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Villa Portales: architectural heritage becomes

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Villa Portales: architectural heritage becomes

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Jessica Martinez Villarreal on 28 / 04/11

La Villa Portales is celebrating its
week between 25 and 30 April . With lectures and film shows, the activities culminate with the launch of "Unity neighborhood group. Architecture, Identity and Heritage. 1955-2010," which traces the architectural history and the community living in the housing complex.
The 19 blocks that make up the neighborhood were built in 1960 as a housing solution for the Fund of Private Employees. In addition to containing solutions of green areas and provide the presence of works of art on the walls, the resort's design allowed for the development and strengthening of community life.

The 31 acres that house the houses are home to about 2 000 families, which share extensive common areas and forested. The architectural style is one of the blocks most notorious examples of the influence of the modern movement in Chile, applied to housing design.

Seremi Courtesy Metropolitan Housing and Urban

The Ministry of Housing and Urban developed a recovery plan for the neighborhood, which is applied in various districts of the country vulnerable. The management plan includes social and community improvement projects, and both the community's history and history of the changes that helped the intervention of the ministry working group took shape in the editing of a book.

In launching the publication corresponding to the Villa Portales to perform this Saturday, and has given rise to a number of associated activities, which recreate the history of the neighborhood unit and combine academic experience with community participation in the program.

Seremi Courtesy Metropolitan Housing and Urban

be held this Friday 29 screening of a video documentary on the neighborhood unit, presented by anthropologist Frances Marquez and audiovisual and archaeologist Paul Miranda, the National Film Center Cultural Palacio de La Moneda. The main event will be Friday April 30 at the Neighborhood Board No. 2 of the Villa Portales, in the presence of the Mayor, the Metropolitan Seremi Housing and events organized by neighbors as art and reading numbers.