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fairly quickly and made the decision to drive to a friends’ house. Later that day, we showed up to their house with the idea that it was not going to flood the area. The next morning, I woke up to my parents telling me that our house has just been flooded and had gotten around two feet inside the house and I knew that we would not be back in our home for a very long time. Next, everyone in the house was told that we needed to sandbag the house because the flood might reach the inside and of course we

these tenement houses were ridiculously high for the condition and size of the rooms. Riis described how some Italians were given board as long as the Italian made enough ash-barrels to feed him, which unfortunately caused many Italians to get use to free rent and thus many were driven to another dump. Riis did not care much for the Italians, because of their lack of focus and life style. One of the well-known tenement housing "the Bend" was labeled as one of the bad tenement houses, and even the

Manifesto Aesthetics in Modern Housing Designs: How Materials are Used Introduction This manifesto aims to summarise the approaches of using materials to create visual impact in designs of modern independent houses. The trend of building private houses began in the Renaissance time in Europe. I found that when developed till the modern times, more variations in designs occurred. The development in technology enabled architects to experiment with a range of materials, resulting

Skeletons in the Closet Our first experience of this old English term came about not as secrets in a person’s past but in a house! Over the years, we have lived in a variety of old homes that embody the history of many families and diverse activities. Among those homes was an old three-story English-style rooming house in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan that was owned by the Anglican Theological College of Emmanuel and St. Chad. Shirley and I had a “flat” on the third floor with four single girls living

Overcrowding and Housing in Nineteenth-Century London From 1801 to 1851, the population of London grew from under 1 million inhabitants to 2.25 million. This was due in large part to immigration, both from other countries and from the countryside of England. Hundreds of thousands of people were moving to the newly industrialized cities and towns to find work, having been squeezed off the land because of the enclosure of farms. There was also displacement of the working-class within the city

Boys Ranch Town I decided to do my field study at the Boys Ranch Town (BRT), which is a residential private facility that houses boys that have low level behavior issues or simply don’t have a home to go to. BRT is apart of Oklahoma Baptist Homes for Children (OBHC) they get all of their funding from donors who appreciate that things that OBHC and BRT are doing for the community. BRT is on a working ranch in which the boys live on and help maintain. The Boys Ranch accepts boys from ages 9-15, but

Wood privacy fences are an important component of a house especially one in the urban community. A well-chosen and appropriately-designed fence affords homeowners the pleasure of enjoying their private space without necessarily giving the impression of being an unfriendly neighbor. You don't even have to fence the entire perimeter of the house. In some cases, even just short sections of fencing in your property can already give you a semblance of solitude and discourage curious onlookers. Keeping

(Resource: Appendix 28), because duplex is popular in Poland, and Polish immigrants built those houses to live in. In Chicago (Resource: Appendix 29), duplex is an old signature of American workplaces and living houses, and they are reserved in Chicago to satisfy the needs of residents there. A duplex house is “a dwelling having apartments with separate entrances for two households. This includes two-story houses having a complete apartment on each floor and also side-by-side apartments on a single lot

solutions to overcome the barriers that obstruct the growth of offsite construction in the housing sector. A survey questionnaire was set and send to various different professionals working in the construction industry such as contractors, designers and house builders in order to analysing the current situation of offsite construction in the housing sector. The wider usage of offsite construction techniques are inhibited by the high investment costs, delayed time, interfacing problem and delayed planning

the center of Barcelona and is one of Antoni Gaudí’s masterpieces. Casa Batlló, located in the very heart of Passeig de Gràcia. The building that is now Casa Batlló was built in 1877 by Emilio Sala Cortés, commissioned by Lluís Sala Sánchez. The house was bought by Josep Batlló in 1900. In 1904 Josep Batlló Josep Batlló hired Antoni Gaudí to remodel Casa Batlló and to divide it into apartments.Gaudi added a fifth floor, completely revamped the interior, depressed the roof, and added a new facade