What is a house? Ramón Mansergas Cortés Verónica de Dios Puertas Carmen Figueroa Hernández Carmen Jovacho Macho Guillermo Jiménez Gonzalvo.

What is a house?

Ramón Mansergas CortésVerónica de Dios Puertas

Carmen Figueroa HernándezCarmen Jovacho Macho

Guillermo Jiménez Gonzalvo

The house and the people

- The furniture transmits the memories, feelings and the character of the house.

- The kids have a stronger feeling of belonging to the house when the proportions fit them.

- The house evolves with the necessities.

House organization

- Doors and partitions create private spaces inside the house.

- It is needed to plan the distribution and spaces of the house in relation to the usage and disposal.

- Do not concentrate only in the resting sites and create effect on the circulations.

Rational storage

- Storage inside the walls to make the space functional.

- For example, Christopher Alexander plays with the walls to keep usages and create spaces.

The car and the house

- The house is adapted to receive the car and changes its spaces.

- The car or caravan are the minimal expression of the house.

The house evolution according to the needs

- The desire to be outside has resulted in the creation of the “external room”.

- It is necessary to rethink about the idea of the apartment blocks. - The buildings should be a place with common areas where the inhabitants can socialize and not a compact place toagglutinate people.

The house evolution according to the needs

-There are new kind of completely different houses appearing in the market.

- Creation of new small houses, with a minimal expression thatare liveable with the minimum necessary.

The house built by us for us- The Do-it-yourself (DIY) is used as a way to reduce expenses and be immersed in the project of the own house; having a strong feeling of belonging.

- At the same time, the house becomes more complex (air conditioner, heating…). - Therefore, the architect develops an instruction book. In there, it is explained how to use the house in order to make the most of it.