Abstract

Chile is constantly affected by various natural disasters of great magnitude and intensity, mainly affecting the country's coastal areas through successive earthquakes and tsunamis recorded throughout history. Chile still holds the record for the strongest and most devastating earthquake of the 20th-century, instrumentally documented having a magnitude of 9.5 in Valdivia in 1960. That is why different government initiatives have been developed to reconstruct and protect the coastline, promoting a resilient and sustainable reconstruction in the future. Regarding government initiatives, resiliency is a concept that has recently started to be included at a policy level. In this way, tools for evaluating resiliency are mainly observed at a macro leBvel, from an urban perspective of the territory and urban planning, but little focus has been put into a more micro-scale towards basic post-disaster facilities, such as housing. This research proposes a tool for assessing the level of resilience of post-disaster homes located in Chile's coastal areas. A matrix with the first set of indicators was developed to evaluate a diagnosis around the concept of resilience. The proposed matrix is inspired and conceived from one of the existing comprehensive models of urban resiliency as the City Resilience Framework from the Rockefeller Foundation (2015). The study explores suitable criteria and measurable indicators for assessing resilience capacities at a building scale. However, the case study shows that post-disaster buildings that have been implemented still need to consider multiple risks with a more holistic approach. This area of research will continue to be fundamental due to constant hazards as a result of Chile's geographical condition.