Other houses other habits.
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Summary
OUTRAS HOUSES OUTROS HABITS, questions the use we make of our houses, the space we use in them, the place in which we place them, the energy that all this consumes, and the territorial and landscape impact of these actions.
The 14 houses presented are economic proposals, new spaces for diverse uses and social structures, mostly isolated single-family homes, located along a 145km highway, crossing territories of diffuse urbanization, between a compact city and a rural environment.
This book aims for the reader to reflect on the current transformations of the territory, the new ways of living and the places where this is happening, to ask ourselves how we live and how we could live better, and which examples are exceptions among the multitude of buildings that surround us.
108 pages
245 x 220mm.
Galician
14 houses, and 70 color photographs
Soft cover with flaps
LEGAL DEPOSIT C-3549/07
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Index
Introduction
Foreword
Itinerary
KM000 A Coruña. House for an autistic
KM008 Oleiros. House for four
KM009 Oleiros. House for two architects
KM011 Oleiros. House for mother and daughter
KM014 Sada. House for designer and publicist
KM023 Arteixo. House for saleswoman and engineer
KM026 Betanzos. House for a nurse
KM029 Betanzos. House for a carpenter
KM070 Stroke. House for TV designer and installer
KM073 Santiago. House for parents, grandparents and grandchildren
KM086 Vedra. House for two teachers
KM090 Santiago. House for biologist and engineer
KM119 Rianxo. House for family with two girls
KM145 Corrubedo. House for an editor
Conclusion
INTRODUCTION
Housing, the house, is one of the architectures with which the territory is built, without a doubt the most important of all, however we only hear about it in economic terms, it is said that today housing is measured by the amount of space that we have to build and not so much because of its quality, we wonder how much it costs, how we can pay for it, sometimes it seems that we do not realize that it is a place where we live, one of the places where we get the most privacy, and being So important, we rarely ask ourselves if there are better ways to live, if our houses can be better, even better and cheaper, more adapted to our way of life, to our interests, if living differently we would be more comfortable, if this influences in our health and in the place we are in. There is talk of future, home-automated, smart homes, but not of people intelligently searching for a better place to live. Can our houses be better?…
Where we live? How we live? Can we live better?
Where do we make our houses? How do we build them?
How much does your house occupy? How much energy does it consume?
Is there excess space in your house? What do you use the extra space for?
Is there a lack of space in your house? How much space do you need to live?
How long does it take you to get home? How long are you there?
How would you like your house to be? Where do you want to live?
This is the city of A Coruña two years ago, here begins the journey that we will take in this book. In it we will find houses made to measure for people who live in the places where our territory is being built. They are not luxurious homes, they are houses determined by economic limitation, in which money is spent on their spatial wealth, on the well-being they provide to their inhabitants, on energetic and dimensional control, and on adaptation to the way of life. of its owners. They are not pretty or ugly houses, they are healthy and comfortable houses that their inhabitants could not find in the real estate market of their city. The coherence with which they were conceived does not extend to the modelless territory of which they are part. The places that its inhabitants could find to build are a sum of altered parcel structures, densified roads, surrounded by exaggerated constructions and landscapes in transformation, in which it is not possible to foresee their future development. We all recognize in them fragments of known places, parts of the city and village, neighborhood or industrial estate, garden or forest, street or highway. All these fragments extend further and further away from the cities, they coexist side by side without us seeming to care, nor wondering how this is happening here, why, and for what reason. And as this happens, more people are left without access to basic services, the more social differences and environmental costs increase.
CONCLUSION
Our house can be filled with all our needs, in it we store our memories and the belongings that help us feel better, we take care of it, we improve and repair it over time, it can grow with us and we adapt it to the changes that happen in our environment. our life, that space inward is an extension of ourselves and our habits, we organize and disorder it, the same volume serves to accommodate many different activities that relate us to others or allow us to gain refuge, that vital order that It is transformed by our way of life, it extends outwards, we take it to all the territories we visit and those we inhabit daily, our habits modify our environment, our house has no dimension, it is as big as the territory we cover, our houses They may be better, more adapted to our way of life, but only if we manage to organize the territory we inhabit by integrating all its inhabitants equitably will we be able to build houses in which to live better.