This article focuses on the comparison between the Spanish architects de La Hoz (Madrid,\n1924) and José MarÃa GarcÃa de Paredes (Seville, 1924) projects for â??ultra-cheapâ?? housing in Cordoba,\nhow it evolved from a British patent named Ctesiphon, and the study of some of existing buildings\nerected following this construction system. The aim of this article is to stablish the evolution of the\nsystem from the original patent into a new possibility for low-income social housing. This system\nwas used to erect new developments in the 1950s that would relocate people living in huts during the\ndictatorship era in Spain, thus new â??technological hutsâ? were proposed and erected. The research\nprocess includes an analysis of the documents and literature available of the patent and the projects\nthemselves, and in situ tests (infrared thermography and samples extraction) will allow to establish\nthe relation between its original inventor, the dissemination of his works in publications from that\nera, and the Spanish company that subsequently, as a concession of the original patent, introduced\nthat system in Spanish architecture. Analysis of the original patent document allows to study the\nprimitive system as it was invented and for what uses it was conceived. Thus, such a methodology\nsupports an establishment of the technical innovations achieved in order to adapt the system to the\nAndalusian environment at that time and its use for housing.
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