Un acercamiento de valoración cultural, fortaleza participativa y autoproducción del hábitat. Caso de estudio Santiago Niltepec, Oaxaca.

Sustainable community building processes result in the empowerment of the individuals or groups that participate in them for the management of their habitat, with which knowledge and skills can be acquired with which it is possible to overcome situations of vulnerability. In the search for community development in the face of any adversity, it is required that the practice of architecture gets feedback from these social processes and consider, from its project criteria, variables of sustainability, environmental sensitivity and social construction; The objective is to establish operational strategies for cultural adaptation based on the production processes of traditional rural housing, supported by the relevance of social processes from the empirical construction and the consideration of their relationships in the case study of the community of Santiago. Niltepec, Oaxaca. The proposed methodology has a qualitative and holistic approach, through focal groups and observational visits to the place, the results show that the community organization can prosper if there is an appropriation of the proposal. As conclusions and reflections, some contributions are offered on the subject of promoting participation in the different communities of our country