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Jorge Luis Borges confessed, on more than one occasion, that his modest blindness was not the dramatic darkness that common sense believes but rather a refuge that, in his case, was built in a slow twilight. At the end of his speech to receive the Honoris Causa degree from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Chile, the Argentine writer spoke about the gradual parting of his sight and the pleasant sensation of entering a new, richer, deeper, and more creative living space. Relying on blindness as an introspective landscape, as a habitable space where fantasy meets realism, it is in this context that the essay proposes to inhabit, with thought, a weightless and infinite domestic space. Other artists achieved it - Groussac, Monet, Homer, Joyce, Herzog, Pallasmaa, and Italo Calvino - turning this kind of induced blindness into an intimate and creative room in which to settle at the end of their lives. Professor Yeager introduces this story, making us ascend to the heavens in search of an inspiring, black, and profound space. The house dreamed by Manuel Parra and Danilo Veras leads us away from the light to discover ourselves in a unique sensory experience. From the hand of the master Lewerentz, this essay will bring together some architectural experimentations with a singular dark box, an asphalt and black environment: black box in Lund. Living in blindness suggests a revision of our perceptual field, imaginatively inhabiting these introspective places where laws seem to have disappeared. Blindness, as Borges mentioned in that speech, makes the body join the space to dream of a new, more poetic, and creative dwelling. (Figure 1). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article evaluates the architectural design of DWELLINGS of SANTIAGO DE LOS CABALLEROS, Dominican Republic designed by several architectures including PANTALEON SALCEDO AND ASSOCIATES and others.

The article evaluates the architectural design of Halo Sideral, a residential complex made up of three buildings developed by the Ideare group in the Cibaeña capital Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic.

The article offers reviews for two-level house is located in a residential sector of Santo Domingo characterized by an irregular topography with an opportunity to achieve an interesting design with spaces and environments with pedestrian entrance communicates with garage and covered interior patio.

The article informs on the architecture of a Barlovento residential complex located in he area of ​​Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic.

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El artículo presenta una entrevista con la arquitecta francesa Odile Decq. Ella comenta sobre su proyecto arquitectónico de una torre residencial en Barcelona, España, y discurre sobre su proceso de diseño. También ofrece sus opiniones acerca de el estado de la educación arquitectónica.

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The article evaluates the architectural design of houses in the Cayenne city of French Guiana designed by the architect Fabien Bermes.

The graphism that Francesc Mitjans used in his drawings, especially in regard to residential buildings, and particularly the illustrations and annotations on the margin of them, bring us closer to the personality and professionalism of this architect, who managed to go beyond the speculative and capitalist pressure of the residential architecture of its time to achieve examples of buildings of outstanding quality that even today reach the rare privilege of being called “houses" instead of “residential buildings". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents part of the conceptual framework of a research focused on evaluating the thermal indoor environment in social housing located in Portoviejo, Manabí, Ecuador, in order to improve habitability and contribution to urban resilience. The present step is related to a theoretical research in order to discuss the evolution of concepts and trends referred to urban sustainability and its relation to social production of habitat, housing quality and particularly, thermal indoor environment. From global processes and approaches, principles are derived, conducting to variables to be taken as study objects in future steps of the research. Previous research focused on evaluating and improving thermal indoor environment in popular and social housing are commented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The office of architects B.V.C.H. was one of the most renowned representatives of modern architecture en Chile by mid-twentieth century, also one of the studies of greater visibility and prestige, nationally and internationally. The text presented here, which refers to a particular segment of studying the work of this office - which tackles the understanding of the dialogue or observable parallels between the production of singlefamily housing and of the greatest works - revised three major periods of consecutive time. Inquiries were made from the interpretation of artwork both time as other contemporaries of specialized archives available. It argues that the design of single-family housing is not a watertight compartment, but there is a way in which this subject, over time, establishes and maintains a dialogue with the other genres developed by architects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with interior design of social housing in Cuba. The work starts form the idea that interior design is a component of the architectural design, but this relation depends on architectural factors as well as other coming from the social conditions of its production. This work uses theoretical methods to explain the results of studies devoted to define satisfaction levels of people regarding their home spaces, and the conditions of production of habitat in last decades. This paper exposes some of the principal problems of indoor spaces at home; explains its possible causes and proposes approaches for its solution. We conclude that interior design of social housing is different from other type of buildings so it must be reviewed in the politics of housing under nowadays-productive conditions in order to improve its quality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The construction work of the National Institute of Savings and Housing INAV between 1959 and 1962, chaired by Pastorita Nunez and Gonzalez, marked a momentous time in the production of social housing in Cuba since the triumph of the Revolution. This was considered the most successful and prolific experience in this field due to its magnitude and quality. In this article the results of an investigation of historical and architectural character, based on the query of primary sources and supplemented by fieldwork are summarized. From that, a characterization of the work of INAV was made. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Bernard Rudofsky is undoubtedly one of the most innovative and versatile creators of architecture and design of the 20th century. This article offers a detailed study of the drawings of his house in Frigiliana, an authentic manifesto and synthesis of contemporary living, claiming with it the values of vernacular architecture, its landscape dimension and the economy of means. Based on unpublished drawings, located in different archives, the research unveils for the first time the ideation process of house. The progressive refinement of the project and the degree of collaboration with Coderch through the graphic transformations are detected in sketches and plans. This study embraces the redrawing of the project, non-existent up to now, that has been contrasted with the built reality. Internationally recognized and protected as monument in 2011, its graphic representation has become drawn heritage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work analyzes the recent economic processes of Tabasco and its impact on urban and demographic growth of the city of Villahermosa. The transformation of Tabasco´s economy and its capital following the discovery of hydrocarbon deposits in the last third of the twentieth century, as a result in recent decades demographic rates increase and expansion of the urban area of the city, which has spread not only to suitable land for the construction of housing but also to buffer areas or flooded lowland, impacting negatively the environment and creating physical vulnerability conditions in the new human settlements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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