Compete solutions of housings in Camagüey

Eighteen works of alternative solutions of the housing, will be presented tomorrow Thursday in the First Provincial workshop of Projects on the pressing topic in the city of Camagüey.

Winning reports of the program of the Architect of the Community, the System of the Housing, the entity main designer EPIA Eleven and of the Ability of Architecture of the University of Camagüey, they will compete in the event favored by the National Institute of the Housing, the Front of Projects and the Union of Architects and Engineers of the Construction in Cuba (UNAICC).

The architect Margarita de la Cruz Estenoz, integral of the Filial UNAICC in the county, manifested that the shop pursues to rescue the use of the elements of natives mud of the territory in the construction of walls, walls, covered and even in foundation, less expensive and durable as reveal the historical architecture of Camagüey.

All the designs are sustained in the saving, the substitution or the combination of deficit elements as the steel, the wood and the cement, without leaving to a second plane the solidity, quality and functional aesthetics of the housings that are built, affirmed de la Cruz.

Another variant that will be exposed to palliate the deficit of properties, constitutes the design of houses by means of the progressive module, in accordance with the necessities, the family purchasing power and the available resources.

Camagüey, the most extensive county in Cuba, quantified 118 641 affectations of housings to consequences of floods and of the devastating step of the hurricanes Dennis, Ike and Paloma. Both last, caused severe residence damages in the municipalities of Santa Cruz del Sur and in the provincial capital.

The winning projects in the Provincial workshop, will compete in the national event announced for the first pay period of October.(Rolando Sarmiento Ricart )