with my father who is an essentially practical man, always wonder why not install hot water in houses ?, Or why houses in rural areas baths should be as far from the house?, today and for a while there are simple and inexpensive technologies that improve the quality of life is far from the city areas.
The cottage in this convenient install hot water system which allows you to save enough money on gas, in large rural areas and especially material deprivation Mapuche are many reasons everyone know and discussed widely.
My wife always remembers stories of his grandfather (papa to say about it, a man of the early XIX), who comes from a very wealthy Mapuche descent, he recounted the rukas as were before and how the various daily tasks in the kitchen for example, to tell her their stories, I can not see things like a spacious, well-ruka provided where firewood is accumulating that feeds the main fire, large pots hung and ready to use, much more. things.
courses and seminars in energy efficiency is curious to hear how the ruka is highlighted as an excellent thermal response and proper vernacular of the region. Then swat and turn to the current home (small and poorly insulated) with an architecture that does not respond or aesthetically to local tradition, let alone respond to something as basic as thermal comfort.
In several visits to observe rural communities and see that improvements can be with small gestures and work: the right way to channel rainwater to isolate correctly the cesspools and latrines, making ordering and piped water (springs ) and water wells.
improve the efficiency of resources we have, this region there wood heating pollution problems in winter, but also did not take advantage of this energy efficiently.
What would be the proposal, well as stated above to make small changes and continue care who brought the manual to use the traditional ruka such as "care to children and fire."
Mi Viejo install your kitchen and heat near the window so much heat is lost out there, usually in our home heating system (flame retardant or kitchen) is attached to a wall that leads directly to the outside by As well as gains heat by radiation, so quickly lost.
In the architectural proposals that we propose, the heat source has a broad front that gives the social spaces of family reunion, and that the wall is support is a central interior (if possible of material), it absorbs heat directly from the kitchen or stove radiates it later and not lost as this happens QUAD is directly outwards.
designs in this case correspond to two proposals for culturally appropriate housing allowance of 48 m2, expandable. The designs were made based on studies in rural areas of the region as well as consultations with people studying the proposals more widely SERVIU built, the idea is that the results support the idea of \u200b\u200ba neighborhood "Mapuche" or "Lof" , an idea a little more crazy and difficult to implement at petty sites and is irrelevant for now.
