The dweller could be anyone, but the basic problem it´s to try to find, transform or build a good dwelling for this person. So we need to think that dwelling it´s not the same as housing. The Professor N.J. Habraken said in his paper “An alternative to mass housing” that “A dwelling is made only and exclusively when people come to live in it”. Anybody with resources can get a house but it´s our duty as architects to create real homes to them, not just a place to stay. That’s why mass housing becomes a real problem when the people try to adapt into the new house, instead the house adapts to the new dweller, as Habraken says “Mass housing demands in advance what a dwelling is before the occupier is in any way concerned.” But the idea is to make that the future dweller participates in the conception of his new home because “The house form is the result of choice among existing possibilities: The greater the number of possibilities, the greater the choice”. (N.J. Habraken), and with this choices from the dweller we could make a better solution for the new housing problem.
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