Alejandro Aravena, the project's architect, and his team have come up with a special type of building. As a building, land can be used very effectively; as a house, further expansion is possible. He provided these families with "semi-finished houses" that they could not build independently, while giving them space to improve their housing according to their respective economic conditions. Aravena won the 41st Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2016 for its design, becoming the first Chilean architect to win the prize.
