The environment we live in can either help or make it difficult for us to live as we like. For example, if we would like to live close to nature, being in a big city does not...
Currently, the most widespread ways of getting a home are either through lease or direct homeownership. The main difference between these two options is who physically owns the...
Organization can come either from the realm of the public administration, usually through social housing, or through direct ownership, be it individual or community based, or...
Sharing is part of the human condition, it allows us to argue, laugh, join up experience and collectively communicate and construct thoughts and ideas... Depending on our own...
In order to find a place to live, beyond using the usual search mechanisms (real estate agents, the grape vine, etc.) there exist other ways of proceeding that might enable us...
In order to pay for a home there are many options that differ from the typical bank mortgage. These options can allow us to reduce costs, are socially more responsible and can...
To conceive the places we inhabit from a woman's point of view leads us to rethink space, the city and the house itself. This means making movement easier between the different...
Given the gradual increase of housing prices for a growing number of families, to the point of setting off all sorts of social alarms with the advent of the financial and...
A group of homes is more than the addition of individual units. It incorporates intermediate spaces between the houses themselves, and between the houses and their...
In the overwhelming majority of cases in the Spanish property market, inhabitants haven’t had the chance to intervene in the design phases of their homes in order to adapt them...
By introducing small changes in our project we can end up reducing energy consumption in the long rung of our home's service life, thus reducing its maintenance costs....
We are continually transforming the spaces of our homes in order to adapt them to our needs, tastes or desires. In this process, a series of housing typologies exist that help...
Even though construction is a specialised industry, there are ways of organising construction work that allow for the participation of the final users of the homes, if the...
Once construction or renewal of our house is over, its management can be either minimal or influence many aspects of community life, in which case management generates a high...
The life we carry out within our homes is not uniform, homogeneous or stable. Changes in our inhabitational needs are not foreseeable, and in many cases, our homes need to be...
- Improvement of the interior finishings
- Improvement of installations and services
- Improvement of the façade
- Undefined spaces
- Absence of interior walls
- Multifunctional spaces
- Spatial adaptation to change of use
- Degrowth by division of the home into two or more units
- Extension of the area of a home over existing space
- Extension of the area of a home through inner growth
- Extension of the area of a home by outer growth
