The reason is that the horns of the babirusa grow without pause during their life until sometimes a moment comes when they begin to pierce the skull and kill them. Currently the species is in danger of extinction. This example, taken from Joseph Heath’s Dirty Profit, is used in the book to show us the flaw in the libertarian liberal argument that natural selection always brings good results. Let’s stay with the idea that this can teach us that the natural is not necessarily the good thing and that some solutions end up being a problem.

In this blog we will be making a compilation of problems related to design and sustainability that at some point were a solution. Because architecture is a solution as stated in the interesting architecture blog called architecture, among other solutions.

In general, the health of the home is precarious as the air renewal is poor, a factor aggravated by a lack of waterproofing of the floors in contact with the ground that favor a presence of excessive environmental humidity that produces surface condensation in facings and the appearance of fungi. The performance generates a central courtyard to which the rooms face, has an insulated and waterproof floor and creates a double flow ventilation system for healthy air.

The construction conditions of the building are bad and lead to a progressive constructive and structural deterioration of the building. Housing is made up of a heterogeneous set of building systems and poor resolutions of building details, the result of a successive addition of volumes typical of self-built suburban buildings. The action simplifies the volume and solves in an appropriate way the construction and structure of the building.

The accessibility of the house is complicated as there are steps of different sizes and slopes scattered by the accesses to the different rooms. The action concentrates the steps in strategic points and leaves the units of use on a single level, allowing a comfortable and better accessible use of the house.

Urban approach

In areas with garden city planning, the boundaries between public and private space are blunt and are almost always formalized by sordid fences that have no care in design. This type of urban fabric favors a very marked relationship of opposition between public and private space. The proposal proposes a fold at the boundary that gives rise to intermediate spaces between public space and private space, favoring a friendlier relationship between public and private space.

The occupation of the plot

Garden city planning is a fabric of buildings surrounded by a garden in which the space built in front of the garden space usually ends up predominating, which ends up being a narrow perimeter strip. Our project proposes to positivize the space not built, so that it constitutes three differentiated patios that become the main spaces of the house. There will be an entrance courtyard, a service courtyard and a main courtyard.

Figure 1. Urban fabric city garden, planning

Figure 2. Urban city garden fabric, proposal

Figure 3. Plot of occupation of the plot, according to the planning and according to the project

Figure 4. Ground floor

Figure 5. Patio configuration diagram

Figure 6. Spatial scheme