Abstract

The house, understood in the Western tradition, supposes separations between the material and the social, between the inhabited and its inhabitants, between the exterior and the interior, between the constructed and the non-constructed. A hilomorphic vision prevails in these conceptions according to which the forms precede the materialities in the manner of the plan that anticipates the house to be inhabited. The residential practice of Mapuche residents in the Andean range reveals the opposite: the materialities - constructions but also hauling of materials, modification of spaces, displacement of the bodies - converge in the permanent reorganization of the inhabited space.