Otto typological variations from a basic configuration, six alternative technology to assemble, in relation to the alignment and location of the module.
The project, as a small manual provides flexible solutions for the self-made habitats on the outskirts of Luanda.
Two plus two modules-cube from 25 square meters each are available to each family to meet the different needs of use. We imagined that the first two modules (one on the ground floor, one on the first floor, staggered, for a total of 50 square meters of covered area), are delivered to the household at the time of the settlement, and that the remaining two modules may later be made in self-arranged according to business and family use.
The result is a catalog of types (C patio, patio + L front garden, front patio garden + linear, double garden, two double garden, patio pavilion) of eight spatial configurations built from time to time articulating the relationship between full and void, through the combination of elements constituting the household: the patio, garden, walkway, a patio, fence, laying down, because of their mutual position, reports are always new. The wall forms the foundation of a domestic architecture. Depending on his position is built with traditional technologies, in six alternatives, based on criteria of transparency (visibility), accessibility, ventilation. We then imagined a housing varies according to the orientation, able to respond to the variety of situations suggested by environmental and urban.
Index of products, unlike the catalog of types, represents the dependent variable boundary conditions: the orientation, the urban, factors that determine the outer limit of the horizon domestic are absorbed by the wall, which in turn is compact, pierced, cut out doors and windows, single or double layer.
This dual condition of flexibility, one internal, typological, outdoor, technology has allowed us to place the fence-in the announcement in a 10m x 25m rectangle with the short side facing the path- in different urban scenarios, different combinations modulate the nature, quality and extent of public open space.
