If the house has an “inside” wall and “outside” wall , or if “inside and outside” sides of the wall can be considered different.

The project studies the possibility of a fixed core that is moved reallocated and socially recycled when given a different function and site ( including inside furniture, pluming, etc- off site- with an outside skin (second skin) that is more adapted to climate, local features and materials availability, etc. This second layer is placed in situ, so it should be lightweight, easy to erect, depend on local techniques and available expertise and mostly be easy to be taken out (disassembled and replaced)

The project considers the possibility of using a brick layer inside to guarantee a good thermal capacity against temperatures swings and 2 options for the outside layer : 1. Brick - meaning a double brick wall construction; 2- wood - constituting a brick+wood wall to make it easier the outside to be “disassembled” or replaced.

If in Denmark a wall is wood+wood and depends on insulation to keep the cold out (not really big temperatures swings, but cold temperatures), in Angola, temperature swings make it bad for the use of a lot of insulation (or insulation at all) once it would just overheat the house by having a too tight building envelope. Can Brick+wood construction achieve good results in Angola (or other hot dry climates) by allowing some good thermal mass (brick) that delays heating and cooling, but use wood outside to allow this second skin to be easily replaced and disassembled when necessary?

Wood solutions , as prefabricated elements (cheaper, mass produced)

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