Uploaded on 2014-10-19 by FFarinhas

For this purpose I chose the vacation home of the architect Alfredo Viana de Lima dated from the 50s. ![enter image description here][1] In this example we see how a windmill as become the main entrance and staircase of a weekend villa, to wich was built a new construction that, despite introducing the scale, colors and concepts of modernism to rural Portugal of the 50s, continues to integrate elements and traditional building techniques, such as granite supporting walls and doors of wood (we call it “persianas”), for example. Introduced new techniques of construction with reinforced slabs, flat roof (nothing common in the north of Portugal) and interior spaces with high ceilings. More important to realize from what country came the iron and cement, is to realize the impact that ideas about modernity and progress have on people. And this is a paradigmatic case. Why are the people and countries of the "belt equator" using construction processes from europe and north america, if their climate and culture are so different from ours? We'll even be able to convince these people that they deserve build houses with strange water bottles? What I mean is that we can not impose on others, however well intentioned we may be, what we don't want to our homes. This has been the concept that has traveled through time and made it possible the proliferation of construction techniques heavily dependent on energy consumption (new materials, new techniques, transportation costs, etc...). The idea of high-density city deserved to be dismantled, as well. The steel and concrete proliferate due to this very notion of high-density, high-rise buildings, and bionic towers. Even though these efforts to diversify the systems and materials of construction are successful (hopefully be) that cities want to build with them? The ones we have? Sorry for the length of the article (and my lousy english) but these issues are vital to me when the issue is what will be or should be the "future cities". What do you think? [1]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/14137312709390267.jpg