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Family is the content of a continent, the house. So it must adapt to it and thereby create a good har-mony. Traditional house has banned rooms for guests. But what happens if it breaks this intimacy?

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For a better family ties among its members, the open spaces and shared spaces are the best solu-tion, because in a space divided, not propitiate re-lationships And the above is added the change factor.

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Naked House Structure

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Even more so, the delicate floor in the traditional Japanese house is understood like a platform which forms part of the furniture. It implies a magnet state similiar to that of walls in Eurpean dwellings which we tend to sit against. In Japan the main pole of attraction is the floor and where one is seated rather than standing or walking on. The way of life in the Japanese house is motivated The way of life in the Japanese house is motivated by movements that cherish the floor, leaning against it or even moving about it on four feet. The floor also gains attention with horizontal lines, the sliding doors and movable screens, as well the black lines that frame the places where things happen. This list of elements directs the viewers' attention to the floor as a place of communication.attention to the floor as a place of communication.

Between the floor and ceiling, the foundation for people's dwelling lies in the spiritual. It is the place where the soul is nourished without any dis-traction of ornamentation or external influences - an idea that derives from Zen Buddism and the belief that knowledge is obtained through reflec-tion and insight.

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The open-plan and neutral space of the shed can be organised and transformed as needed by moving the bedrooms, they even can be drawn out to the garden through the large window on the western facade. With them, and by emphasising the movement of the cubicles by making their wheels highly visible, the surface of the floor rein-forces its quality as a place of communication.forces its quality as a place of communication.

On the opposite end of the house, next to the porch that serves as the parking area, the ba-throom, laundry and a dressing room are drawn together. All the clothes of the family members are stored together to avoid the use of wardrobes that would impede the movement of the cubicles. The kitchen is placed at one side of the shed and separated from the common living area by way of separated from the common living area by way of a curtain.

With a similar appearance as the greenhouses nearby, a translucent enclosure was designed to protect the family's privacy and to avoid unwanted glances from the access route. The exterior of the wooden framework which forms the structure is clad with corrugated translucent plastic reinfor-ced with fibreglass, while the interior facade is co-vered with cotton fabric fixed with Velcro to make it easier to clean.

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The problem that Shigeru Ban was faced with was to find thermal insulation, which permitted the light to filter through. Once more following his in-terest in introducing new materials in the building construction, and by practising with colourful ma-terials such as wood splinters and remnants of recycled paper, he decided to fill the cavity left between the two planes with polystyrene shaving that in Japan is used to pack fruit. The only requi-rement to make this product suitable was to have to saturate it in a liquid that held back fire and to enclose it in transparent vinyl bags that were sealed and nailed to the wooden structure. With the exception to the cubicles, which were constructed with brown corrugated carton, the in-terior of the whole house enjoys the same milky white light that characterised the old houses with screens made of rice paper.

In the same way as the traditional Japanese house is not thought as a permanent dwelling but a place where the inhabitants stay temporarily until their situation changes, the Naked House is designed as a one space which describes the course of time like water in the river that never stands still and takes on enumerable forms.

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#1. FIRST IMPRESSIONSAFTER READING, EMERGE IDEAS AND CONCEPTS THAT ARE THE BASIS FOR HOME STUDY

1: http://storiesofhouses.blogspot.com.es/19

The reading of the Naked House, is in the blog Stories of Houses1, where they are exposed the true stories of different houses of the twentieth century

1: http://storiesofhouses.blogspot.com.es/

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2#. ANALYZINGCONCEPTS.

Taking the concept of the home localized appears obstacle in the analysis, and it is the turn of the century that has beenunder the house, and therefore a change in these conpectoscultural. But time has passed for the family.

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more ahead,it promises new experiences. The young lady leaves to start her journey; she will encounter and join with others along her course through life. At the end of her journey, when she has expe-riences everything along her riences everything along her path, she will be able to look back. By seeing her past expe-riences she will know the lives she merged with. Along with all of this, the meaning of transfor-mation and interaction are crucial, both transform the project into the reality, and that's what we want to convey though the montage, the feeling of change.

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holidays and the parents are currently enjoying their free-dom to entertain. Now that the father is retired -after spending most of his life outside the home- he has become an active part of the family again. Though he spends most of his time at he spends most of his time at home now, he hasn’t lost the habit of meeting with his ex-coworkers. He usually invites them to his home once or twice a week, thus returning some life to the home. The wife similarly has friends and co-wor-kers over. Now, the house has been transformed into a space with renewed duality; the juxta-position of the intimate/private and the social is changed but still present. The flexibility of privacy and space is still appli-cable, however the purpose has changed. The flexibility is no longer serving a set group of 6 people with varying needs. nstead the flexibility is respon-ding to both the new needs of a household of 3, and the cons-tant stream of visitors and guests. On the other hand, there is a degree of obstinacy in the family. The grandfather’s traditional customs have set the family at odds. It symbolizes a clash between the tradi-tional and western

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documentaries, war stratagem,and has taken up his study of martial arts again. The mother has found more time for her love of watercolors and can often be found moving one of the empty bedrooms around the home, a make shift studio the home, a make shift studio inside, looking for the best lighting and the best views. In summary; the family's private life has changed, the parents' jobs have been replaced with more social activities and the personal interests of the family personal interests of the family have now taken on a more im-portant and dominating role in their lives

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influences in Japan. Another element of family life that has taken a new role in the home is the personal interest/activity. The grandfather has taken to the art of bonsai in his wife's absence, growing and keeping them in the house. This preocthem in the house. This preoc-cupation with the art of Bonsai is consuming for the gran-dfather and serves as the third element of his family life. Simi-larly, The mother and father are now both retired, and when not entertaining, have personal pursuits of their own. The father has taken to games of strategy, loves historical

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#3. DRAWING THE NEW ACTION

After the analysis of cultural concepts that affect the house with the change of century XX to XXI is appropriate to analyze the di-fferent actions that change entails

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With the changes in family structure and in their normal routine, the house also suffered activities not previously used to. Gran-dpa Bonsai need much at-tention and dedication, so we have to take into ac-count the orientation of the sun, the periods of growth and utensils that are ne-cessary for proper creci-meinto. The mother's ar-tistic activity also generates changes as to draw the garden, with a particular sunlight, must move the cube along the floor to paint the proper perspecti-ve. Father's physical acti-vity, also leads to the floor have well marked when moviemientos ralizar diffe-rent. And the various visits to the family throughout the week, leading to a food preparation, which should be governed by time, proper placement of the table and after dinner the meeting, where the guests relate more colloquially hosts. All these actions are carefully analyzed by the group members.

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Then we analyze the action of the dinners at home and ambience it creates. The middle phase of this action is the preparation of food. As the diagram above, in the prepara-tion of these, we analyze the existing light, which come from the outside, through the translucent walls and through the translucent walls and

small window. Then they should also analyze the preparation of the food, as embodied and that genera-tes forms. And prepraracion is linked with the issue of odors, as in cooking different foods in a kitchen creates a different atmosphere of odors, contrasting with softer stronodors, contrasting with softer stron

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ger over the kitchen. When serving food lols, its placement is also impor-tant in avocado trees as there indivi-dales central plates and dishes, which follows a hierarchical order. In the table, the guests need to feel at ease and that each guest has his space to move to eat.

tFor dinner, he right lighting is an en-vironmental lighting, but this should already be articial, as serious and dark. In the table are also present odors, so that in the center are the heavier dishes such as soups and abroad and in the individual dishes like rice softer.like rice softer.

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It is not enough good cen-tral position of the dishes. Each guest must have on the table a number of dishes in place and serving Japanese way of eating, which means table service unit. Thus a Japanese bowl unit. Thus a Japanese bowl is always positioned below the head and therefore its vertical position must be separate from the table about 10 cm so that the arms move freely to take dishes with complete freedishes with complete free-dom and comfort.

After dinner, he goes to the mee-ting, when diners get more comfor-table, they relax, drink and talk. This activity can be done at the same table, but the idea is to change the envi-ronment so that the guest can relax and thus promote the communication between them.

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#4. TECHNICAL DETAILS

And after analyzing and studying the problems in the house ori-ginated in the XVIth century, trying to improve reality by chan-ging a small part of the house.

One area that can be mo-dified to allow the meeting area for after dinner. The house has a mobile cha-racter that can not be missed, so to devise this area, we must keep in mind that you can not miss this concept.Therefore, we propose a puff filling a pneumatic membrane through a system of pump of outside air. The mechanism and puff are below ground. Just lifting a cover, would go on the mechanism and go on the mechanism and automatically fills.The puff would refer to the con-cepts of Westernization, as it is a clear influence, and Tradition longer be main-tained by sitting on the floor

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Other proposals could be a number of openings in exterior walls for growing bonsai, to re-ceive the necessary sunlight or vision of the garden to take it as a reference when painting; the addition of a layer of a wood makes contact with the human, makes contact with the human, become more fluffy; the incor-poration of a shelf and modifica-tion of the arrangement of one of the cubicles, for more private use to read, and the placement of a storage device under the table , to make it much more comfortable.

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To conclude, provides a brief reflection of ideas and knowled-ge on experencie have Re-reading Stories of Houses.

and 7 Spanish from the Alicante University. And with that, the choice of houses to deepening: The Naked House and Aktion Po-lophile House. To analyze the houses, we help the technique of photomontage, expressing them cultural factors relevant to the cultural factors relevant to the homes and and the changes bet-ween the turn of the century, as the houses were costruidas in the twentieth century and in the case of the Naked House, have passed about 20 years of its construction. Some of these changes taking place in Japane-se culture, is the influence of the West or the incorporation of women into the workforce and improve their rights.After the analysis, we decided to focus on the Naked House and his family, which after analysis of the cultural changes that Japan has suffered, now imagine a possible situation of the house where we will cenatrar more to life in the home. After analyzing life in the home. After analyzing the new shares that are held in the home caused by previous changes. And finally, we made a short speech in the house, which help make these new activities.

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The life of the people is marked by a series of ideas, therefore, the architecture adapts to the needs and ideas of customers of Architects, and help them adapt. But these ideas and needs change over time. You could say that expire.that expire.In the case of Naked Home loses with the passage of time, the home loses residents, and the-refore more wasted space. The-refore raises the reuttilizacion of those spaces that no longer work. Besides, the family life changes. Therefore, the archi-tecture must change. In this case, the father to spend

most of the day at home, looking for other activities to do, and these activities have an impact on the home loses. So he needs a place marked and governed return to martial arts. Grandpa also requires therefore a space to relax and where the house to relax and where the house can adapt to their illness.They must think that the life of a house and its members is linked forever because architecture is born of that family, their need for a place to live, and that can be adapted to different functions.

We could say that no two houses We could say that no two houses are alike, as two families are

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Group work has been the key to getting these results. The Communication, when living in diffe-rent parts of the world (Canada and Spain) to someday Spain) to someday caused some misun-derstandings, but overall has been very good safety for all.The communications made through Goo-gleGroups. But most of them on Facebook, because when con-nected, it is faster and easier to review the topics.

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6 October. AronHi All, Our conversation with Halldora Our conversation with Halldora today went very well, the narrative was well received and the 'action' in the story was discussed. 1 different 'actions' were taken from the story; The first one was about how the parents have started to entertain visitors. The 'action' taken from this visitors. The 'action' taken from this is everything about from how the food is prepared with emphases on how the sounds of the food prepara-tion would be heard in the house, or what smells there would be in the open space of the house and the visuals of how the food is prepared and presented. The idea of recycling the existing mobile homes to use as more the traditional Japanese floor (it was considered part of the furni-ture) was brought up. It would relate back to the conceptual word of 'Transform' also. The second 'action' that was discussed was that of the Grandfather working though the grief of loosing the Grandmother by working with his Bonsai Trees. The 'action' could but the careful cultivating and maintenance of the plants, how he would snip and a plants, how he would snip and a single branch, then study the shape and understand where it would need to be cut next. How he would test the moisture of the soil and watch for any mites that appear. The concept of 'transform' was discussed about how the empty mobile contaiabout how the empty mobile contai-ners could be refitted to house and care for the trees, it gives a new role

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9October, MeganHi All,Happy Canadian Thanks Giving! For Happy Canadian Thanks Giving! For Wednesday, we were asked to identi-fy the ACTION in the story that had become the driving factor for change. In our story, we have two options. Once we have decided which ACTION we prefer, or if we would like to keep BOTH, we will submit drawings that BOTH, we will submit drawings that represent this/these ACTION(S). This drawing is to NOT INCLUDE architec-ture. It is simply meant to identify which ACTION(S) will DRIVE the ar-chitecture. 1) The Grandfather, in his old age, has taken to the Eastern Tradition of the Bonsai. His wife is gone, he is be-coming less and less concerned with the other activities in the household, and the Husband and Wife have taken to entertaining guests more and more often. The ACTION we must remore often. The ACTION we must re-search and then DRAW in this case is the Bonsai. It occupies the time he spends on his own, and provides an activity that the whole family can en-courage him with. How does it repre-sent the changes in the household? How does the tending of it reflect on architecture? 2) Entertaining. How does the move out of their children effect the lives of the two parents? What changes in routine do they experience now that they are retired? What activities do large groups of Japanese 50+ aged

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couples participate in? What games/activities are suitable for home entertaining? What is the cul-ture in Japan for entertaining guests? How does all of this effect the Grandfather? Think on it and try to make a decision that will lead to the BEST ACTION(S) for developing the family's home.

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14 October, AronHi All,

On Friday we had met with Javier, On Friday we had met with Javier, and discussed the direction of our work so far. For Monday we are to refine our drawings, if you feel they need to be refined. Emphases should be on Precision, and should reflect a cultural change and aspect of our house. of our house. Please, if anyone has any questions or comments please make them known.

14 October, Emilyhi everyone, Have we decided on what cultural change we are going to focus on? I feel like it could be something simple like the parents get a divorce, (as well as the children move out and the grandmother dies). Japan is in the top 5 countries in the world for divor-ces now. One in four marriages end ces now. One in four marriages end in divorce in Japan. Anyways if anyone has comments or ideas that would be great. I'm working on adding a reflection of cultural change to my drawing, however I wasn't sure

what our cultural change was.

14 October, BorjaHi everyone, I think that cultural facts and the I think that cultural facts and the story which we are telling, both are done now, and it̀s the last text done. I think is better to focus in our drawings and improve them like our teacher have told us. What do you think about that?

14 October, Emily14 October, EmilyI was told we don't have a modern day 'cultural fact' in our story yet....Grandmothers dying and chil-dren moving out have always happened...neither are new to the 20th century.

15 October, AronIt cultural aspect I chose to work with out of our story was the idea of forced early retirement that was ins-tigated after last year's earthquake. This will open up what he does with his time. I'm not sure if this helps anyone, but it is what I'm working with... for now.

15 October, Ruben I'm working in the same topic, the I'm working in the same topic, the forced retirement and its influence on the house, and I think it is an actual cultural fact, because we searched for information and we can base it on a recent change in Japan.

#References

1. http://storiesofhouses.blogspot.com.es

2. http://www.shigerubanarchitects.com

3.http://www.designboom.com

4. http://blog.bellostes.com/?p=1977

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