Just lay out a plot with some string and stakes. Toss some pallets or other junk in order to make it hard for others to claim that land as theirs.

The first tin tipi I’ve ever seen.

Might help to build a shack over the weekend.

A sign with your name too…

…but then someone might cross it out and put their own.

Robert Wright up in Buenos Aires has a great ongoing section called “housing for the masses” over at his site. Although that section primarily covers mass housing projects and their style of architecture from the days of old, I couldn’t help but think of a similar situation that is occurring down here in TDF–minus the grand architecture schemes.

I was driving around the other day to see what’s new in the development side of things around the city of Rio Grande. Electronics assembly plants, warehouses, and homes are popping up everywhere. Chacras, the name given to government-funded housing projects (Chacra I, Chacra IX ,etc), are also in on the boom–the new ones are now numbered in the mid-teens. Before they pretty much consisted of large apartment type complexes but now the new developments are focusing on houses and duplexes. (This is just a quick half-assed post and I’ll grab some shots of the older apartments and cover the topic more another day.)

The whole width of the above shot is filled with units that are under construction.

I really don’t know how many are being built in this Chacra.

Each unit is a duplex. (Might be some single-family mixed in but not sure at the moment)

Date: 13-03-2007
Location: Just outside Rio Grande, Tierra Del Fuego, Argentina

Date: 18-02-2007
Location: Estancia Maria Behety