Home-making is a complex manifold of social and environmental processes, where individuals and families cultivate, nurture and preserve inhabit their primary domestic space: their homes. Shedding light on home-making practices may help us understand how families and individuals prioritize needs and resources and negotiate aesthetic values and norms to transform a house into a meaningful physical and imaginary entity. To date, so far, most literature on home-making practices in self-build housing schemes has focused on the role of dwellers (mostly families) in shaping their built environment, with little attention to the internal dynamics of family cores in producing home-making practices, and how these dynamics are shaped by existing spatial constrains. We propose that home-making practices should be considered mutually adaptive processes, in the sense that house transformations are shaped by people’s own activities, capabilities, interests and skills, which are multiple and modify over time, and, in turn, these home-making practices are shaped by family dynamics and spatial constrains. The current study portrays home-making practices and house enlargements of fifteen Minimal Incremental Units built under Chile’s Programa de Vivienda Progresiva, a large state-funded incremental housing programme that operated from 1990 to 2002. A series of semi-structured interviews were carried out to residents to know their motivations for upgrading or transforming their houses, the use of indoor and outdoor spaces, among other aspects. People’s perceptions were analysed qualitatively, attending at four dimensions of interest: motivations behind incremental upgrades, socialisation practices within home space, habitability conditions of the houses and family composition and incremental needs over time. The main results show that home-making practices aim to accommodate social and intimate spheres, and that exterior spaces play a significant role in everyday life, regardless of harsh climatic conditions of certain zones of Chile. Further, domestic spaces were transformed to accommodate sewing workshops, auto-repairs premises or gardening shelters, thus customising the house by intricate and evolving dynamics. The resulting domestic environment, in turn, would shape new family dynamics, producing a holistic, synchronic whole called home.

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在智利的“渐进式住房计划”（1994-2016年）的背景下，探索住房和增量升级的相互适应过程

房屋建造是一个复杂的社会和环境过程，个人和家庭在其中耕种，养育和养护其主要家庭空间：家园。讲究做家的作法可能有助于我们理解家庭和个人如何优先考虑需求和资源，并商讨美学价值和规范，以将房屋改造成有意义的实体和虚构实体。迄今为止，到目前为止，关于自建住房计划中的家庭制作实践的大多数文献都集中在居民（主要是家庭）在塑造其建成环境方面的作用，而很少关注家庭核心在生产家庭住房方面的内部动力。制作实践，以及如何通过现有的空间约束来塑造这些动态。我们建议，应将家庭制作做法视为相互适应的过程，从某种意义上说，房屋的改造是由人们自身的活动，能力，兴趣和技能所决定的，这些活动，能力，兴趣和技能是多种多样的，并且会随着时间的流逝而发生变化，进而，这些家庭营造的做法也受到家庭动态和空间限制的影响。当前的研究描绘了在智利的Vivienda Progresiva计划下建立的15个最小增量单位的家庭生产实践和房屋扩大，该计划是一项由国家资助的大型增量住房计划，于1990年至2002年期间实施。针对该计划进行了一系列的半结构化访谈居民了解他们升级或改造房屋的动机，室内外空间的使用等。对人们的看法进行了定性分析，涉及了四个感兴趣的方面：​​逐步升级的动机，家庭空间中的社会化做法，房屋的可居住性条件和家庭组成以及随着时间的推移的增量需求。主要结果表明，家庭作坊的目的是适应社会和亲密领域，并且无论智利某些地区的恶劣气候条件如何，外部空间在日常生活中都起着重要作用。此外，家庭空间也进行了改造，以容纳缝纫车间，自动维修场所或花园掩蔽所，从而通过错综复杂的动态变化定制房屋。反过来，由此产生的家庭环境将塑造新的家庭动力，产生一个整体，共时的整体，称为“家”。主要结果表明，家庭作坊的目的是适应社会和亲密领域，并且无论智利某些地区的恶劣气候条件如何，外部空间在日常生活中都起着重要作用。此外，家庭空间也进行了改造，以容纳缝纫车间，自动维修场所或花园掩蔽所，从而通过错综复杂的动态变化定制房屋。反过来，由此产生的家庭环境将塑造新的家庭动力，产生一个整体，共时的整体，称为“家”。主要结果表明，家庭作坊的目的是适应社会和亲密领域，并且无论智利某些地区的恶劣气候条件如何，外部空间在日常生活中都起着重要作用。此外，家庭空间也进行了改造，以容纳缝纫车间，自动维修场所或花园掩蔽所，从而通过错综复杂的动态变化定制房屋。反过来，由此产生的家庭环境将塑造新的家庭动力，产生一个整体，共时的整体，称为“家”。因此，通过复杂且不断变化的动态来定制房屋。反过来，由此产生的家庭环境将塑造新的家庭动力，产生一个整体，共时的整体，称为“家”。因此，通过复杂且不断变化的动态来定制房屋。反过来，由此产生的家庭环境将塑造新的家庭动力，产生一个整体，共时的整体，称为“家”。