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Departing from the need to evaluate the design quality of the social housing in Bogotá according to the necessities and expectations of the inhabitants, the paper exposes a procedure based on a temporal approach that articulates the past, present and future by considering traditions, changing needs and expectancies. This approach leads to the necessity of a flexible design that allows a progressive housing adaptation. Housing is defined as a design solution in a broad scope that involves the evaluation of the habitable space at the architectural scale, its relation to the immediate environment and to the city at the urban scale. Variables, parameters and indicators are presented as basis to the structure of the theoretical model for the evaluation of the design quality of housing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]