An elderly mother decides to build two compact houses along with her daughter, upon her own recent state of widowhood, giving up the large-sized house in which the family used to live.

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Architects: TDA?

Location: Lambare, Paraguay

Project Architects: Miguel Duarte, Larissa Rojas

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Federico Cairoli

Collaborators: Magali Ibarrola, Luis Landivar, Miguel Duarte (p), Enrique Granada

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An elderly mother decides to build two compact houses along with her daughter, upon her own recent state of widowhood, giving up the large-sized house in which the family used to live.
Site Plan

This project reflects on compactness. (This can be defined as the ratio between the usable space of buildings and the space occupied by the surface).

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Typically the amount of square meters guarantees social position, the more square meters we built, the more socially accepted we were, she commented.

Plan 1

Plan 2

The passing of time is fast. Children migrate building new places and that home becomes a museum, dark and silent.

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Fearing abandonment and especially oblivion, this proposal restates coexistence based on practicality but especially...