The Philippines is one of the most rapidly urbanizing countries in Asia. This trend reflects the effects of years of high rates of natural population growth and consistent rural-to-urban migration. Urbanization in the Philippines has been led by Metro Manila, also known as the National Capital Region (NCR), since the 1950s. Metro Manila and the other five metropolitan areas of the country produce 80% of the Philippines' Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and no development strategies for the rural areas are to be implemented in the foreseeable future. The spread of informal settlements in the Philippines has become a phenomenon associated with big cities and unplanned expanding urban centres. From the early 1970s to more recent years, estimates of the number of informal settlers in the country have varied, ranging from 470,000 to 2.5 million families. Current estimates2, place the number of informal settlement families (ISFs) at about 1.5 million, 15% of the Philippines' total urban population. Many ISFs live in chronic urban poverty and are confronted by physical, economic, social, legal and environmental risks on a day-to-day basis. They have limited or no access to security of tenure, capital, social networks, environmental safety and legal security. Clearly, as in other developing countries, the pervasiveness of informal settlements in the Philippines can be traced back to low income, inadequate urban planning, lack of serviced land, lack of affordable social housing, and many other factors.3 In Metro Manila and other growing urban centres, informal settlers live in sprawling slums that do not meet the most basic hygienic needs (or, worse, are used as dumping grounds for hazardous wastes) where they are constantly exposed to serious health risks. This issue has been too often addressed in ineffective ways: demolitions, relocations to extra urban areas, overcrowded tenement buildings. The aim of this work is to demonstrate that the informality that shapes this settlements and the social housing provided by the government so far can't be repressed, and should be incorporated in what is commonly considered "proper" architecture. These two aspects can successfully work together to generate an environment that responds to the needs of the people. Formality can lay the basis for informality to happen and evolve in a solid, safe and hygienic environment. This is the principle that defines the whole strategy here proposed for the chosen case study, the Smokey Mountain and Paradise Heights area in Tondo, Manila. The project is focused on the creation of public spaces at the street level using abandoned areas and existent and new buildings, in order to continuously connect parts of the city that share the same margins, but are not linked to one another. The proposal presents a series of covered public spaces realized using parts of some existing buildings and the alleviation of the overcrowding issue that affects this neighbourhood; a new and incremental social hosing building prototype, that would provide families highly flexible spaces; a diffused system of public toilets and wash-houses in the slum area, to provide ISFs with the sanitary and hygienic facilities they don't have access to; a family planning centre, with day-clinics for medical visits and classrooms for educational meetings and initiatives; and a junk shop, that could be the first step for a cooperative recycling business in the area. Another aspect that is pointed out is that in contexts characterized by scarcity of resources in terms of funds and materials, vernacular traditional buildings are the greatest resources for architects and engineers, as people managed to protect themselves from the weather elements with simple and effective precautions and no need of high-tech solutions. Of course, these precautions and architectural forms are to be actualized and adapted to the needs of a family living in a city of the 21st century, and this is were architects, engineers and planners should contribute with their expertise. Numerous NGOs have been and are working in the Smokey Mountain area, mainly carrying on important and indispensable feeding and schooling programs; I hope that this project, although probably utopian, will be able to raise awareness towards the living conditions of so many people also from an urban and architectural point of view.
This article rebuts conventional claims that AIDS in Africa is a microbial problem to be controlled through sexual abstinence, behavior modification, condoms, and drugs. The orthodox view mistakenly attributes to sexual activities the common symptoms that define an AIDS case in Africa - diarrhea, high fever, weight loss and dry cough. What has really made Africans increasingly sick over the past 25 years are deteriorating political economies, not people's sexual behavior. The establishment view on AIDS turned poverty into a medical issue and made everyday life an obsession about safe sex. While the vast, selfperpetuating AIDS industry invented such aggressive phrases as "the war on AIDS" and "fighting stigma," it viciously denounced any physician, scientist, journalist or citizen who exposed the inconsistencies, contradictions and errors in their campaigns. Thus, fighting AIDS in Africa degenerated into an intolerant religious crusade. Poverty and social inequality are the most potent co-factors for an AIDS diagnosis. In South Africa, racial inequalities rooted in apartheid mandated rigid segregation of health facilities and disproportionate spending on the health of whites, compared to blacks. Apartheid policies ignored the diseases that primarily afflicted Africans - malaria, tuberculosis, respiratory infections and protein anemia. Even after the end of apartheid, the absence of basic sanitation and clean water supplies still affects many Africans in the former homelands and townships. The article argues that the billions of dollars squandered on fighting AIDS should be diverted to poverty relief, job creation, the provision of better sanitation, better drinking water, and financial help for drought-stricken farmers. The cure for AIDS in Africa is as near at hand as an alternative explanation for what is making Africans sick in the first place.
Realizzato nell'ambito del progetto "Ricerca ed Innovazione per l'Olivicoltura Meridionale", finanziato dal MiPAAF ; Olive as other woody perennial crops can be affected by several systemic pathogens, including bacteria, fungi and several vector-borne viruses. The most important olive diseases, caused by different pathogens, are described in this text. Pathogen biology, diagnostic technique and control strategies are reported for each disease. The main and widespread bacterial disease, caused by Pseudomonas savastanoi pv. savastanoi, is the olive knot. As concerns the most important and widespread fungal diseases, in this text are described the olive leaf spot, Verticillum wilt, cercosporiosis, anthracnose, fruit rot, parasitic brusca, root rot, sooty mold and wood rot. Infections caused by viruses are generally symptomless and do not result in diseased plants. Although, viruses do not cause detrimental disease on olive varieties, the infected olive trees represent a reservoir of virus inoculum for other crops, where these viruses are known to cause severe disease. Detection of these viruses represent an important critical step in the sanitary improvement of this crop. Recently, molecularbased assays have been effectively implemented to detect at least 8 of the 15 viruses known to infect this crop. Sanitation program using in vitro culture of shoot tip and thermotherapy have been recently described to recover virus-free plantlets. ; MiPAAF - Ministero delle politiche agricole alimentari e forestali
none ; The problem of inadequate housing and the lack of basic water and sanitation infrastructures is not new but goes back to the formation of the first cities. However nowadays 31,6% of the world urban population lives in slums, in other words one urban citizen out of three lives in an inadequate housing condition. Slums are not anymore marginalized parts of the city, but on the contrary in many developing countries they have become the main type of human settlement. Slums are the physical and spatial manifestation of urban poverty and intra-city inequalities and they are the result of the lack of low cost houses for the urban poor. There is an extensive literature on slums of Developing Countries, however this phenomenon is still not documented or studied in "Developed Countries", where slums are presents but in a smaller extent. The present work wants to document the presence of slums in Rome, which has become the "capital city of the housing crisis". In fact the most vulnerable parts of the population cannot afford to rent or buy a house on the market and they do not receive any support from the State. These people form the "forgotten" housing demand, a part of the housing demands that is not fulfilled by the market or the Welfare State. The hypothesis of this work is that the presence of an unsatisfied demand for low cost houses has forces those excluded from the housing market and abandoned by the State to find informal housing solutions as the slums. However, in Rome this "forgotten" housing demand is very diversified and each segment of this demand has built slums with different characteristics. The work is structured in three parts. The first part contains the theoretical background of the thesis and it presents the slums as a global phenomenon. First of all, the international definition of slum elaborated by UN-Habitat is presented together with the main critics that have been raised by scholars. Secondly the evolution of theories and practices concerning slums is analyzed. Finally an overview of the ...
At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, the growth of deaths and the spread in Brazil of epidemic outbreaks interfered in the formation of public health policies and were central components for the constitution of large research institutions and laboratories, such as the Instituto Adolfo Lutz, Instituto Bacteriológico Domingos Freire, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz and Instituto Butantan. The development of major public health and sanitation initiatives helped in the initial creation of the National Health System and, subsequently, with the creation of the Ministry of Health and the development of the Unified Health System (SUS), constituted the structural bases of the power of national response of health institutions (hospitals, laboratories, foundations, centers and research institutes), to face the health crises in Brazil. This article aims to: a) debate and reflect on how the deliberate destruction of the public health protection system takes place in Brazil; b) what is the role of the extreme-right government, negationism and evangelical fundamentalism in the dissemination of disinformation about the Covid-19; c) to analyze how the business lobby for the use of chloroquine in the pharmaceutical industries was favored by the denialist speech and the sale of medicines from the "Kit Covid"; d) analyze the consequences of the absence of compensatory policies for the poorest and most vulnerable population to the pandemic, and the growth of misery, hunger and unemployment; and e) answer the question: how and why did we arrive at such a large number of victims? ; À la fin du 19e siècle et au début du 20e siècle, la croissance des décès et la pro-pagation au Brésil des flambées épidémiques ont interféré dans la formation des politiques de santé publique et ont été des éléments centraux de la consti-tution de grands instituts de recherche et de laboratoires, tels comme Instituto Adolfo Lutz, Instituto Bacteriológico Domingos Freire, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz et Instituto Butantan.Le développement d'initiatives majeures de santé publique et d'assainis-sement a contribué à la création initiale du système national de santé et, par la suite, avec la création du Ministère de la Santé et le développement du Système de Santé Unifié (SUS), ont constitué les bases structurelles du pouvoir de réponse nationale des établissements de santé (hôpitaux, laboratoires, fondations, centres et instituts de recherche) pour faire face aux crises sanitaires au Brésil.Cet article vise à: a) débattre et réfléchir à la manière dont la destruction délibérée du système de protection de la santé publique a lieu au Brésil; b) quel est le rôle du gouvernement d'extrême droite, du négationnisme et du fondamentalisme évangélique dans la diffusion de la désinformation sur le Covid-19; c) analyser comment le lobby des entreprises pour l'utilisation de la chloroquine dans les industries pharmaceutiques a été favorisé par le dis-cours négationniste et la vente de médicaments du "Kit Covid"; d) analyser les conséquences de l'absence de politiques compensatoires pour les populations les plus pauvres et les plus vulnérables à la pandémie, et la croissance de la misère, de la faim et du chômage; et e) répondre à la question: comment et pourquoi sommes-nous arrivés à un si grand nombre de victimes? ; At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, the growth of deaths and the spread in Brazil of epidemic outbreaks interfered in the formation of public health policies and were central components for the constitution of large research institutions and laboratories, such as the Instituto Adolfo Lutz, Instituto Bacteriológico Domingos Freire, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz and Instituto Butantan. The development of major public health and sanitation initiatives helped in the initial creation of the National Health System and, subsequently, with the creation of the Ministry of Health and the development of the Unified Health System (SUS), constituted the structural bases of the power of national response of health institutions (hospitals, laboratories, foundations, centers and research institutes), to face the health crises in Brazil. This article aims to: a) debate and reflect on how the deliberate destruction of the public health protection system takes place in Brazil; b) what is the role of the extreme-right government, negationism and evangelical fundamentalism in the dissemination of disinformation about the Covid-19; c) to analyze how the business lobby for the use of chloroquine in the pharmaceutical industries was favored by the denialist speech and the sale of medicines from the "Kit Covid"; d) analyze the consequences of the absence of compensatory policies for the poorest and most vulnerable population to the pandemic, and the growth of misery, hunger and unemployment; and e) answer the question: how and why did we arrive at such a large number of victims?
RIASSUNTO La scelta di realizzare un Centro Benessere è stata presa per: - la necessità di focalizzare l'attenzione sull'individuo in quanto parte di una comunità, cercando di costruire un luogo che faccia emergere la primaria importanza del pensare a sé stessi, non come forma di egoismo o egocentrismo, ma come opportunità di conoscersi per poi imparare di nuovo a conoscere gli altri in un confronto sempre costruttivo. Ritengo sia importante abbattere quel muro che stiamo innalzando con mattoni fatti di tecnologia e schermi, reintegrando gli antichi insegnamenti, affrontati con la sociologia, riassunti nel significato di Agorà (dal greco antico ἀγορά = raccogliere, radunare). Nell'antica Grecia con questo termine si indicava la piazza principale della polis (città), creata con la consapevolezza dell'inestimabile valore che hanno gli spazi aperti e quelli comuni nell'aggregazione di individui di diversa età, ceto e pensiero. - la possibilità di costruire un edificio non per un'unica persona o per un nucleo familiare con abitudini simili, ma per cercare un "linguaggio comune" per poter soddisfare esigenze e personalità differenti. Il problema è quindi quello di trovare un modello unico di "abito-edificio" che possa calzare su misura al singolo e che, allo stesso tempo, possa valorizzarlo e distinguerlo dagli altri. Il sito oggetto di intervento si trova nella frazione di Laura, nel Comune di Crespina Lorenzana, in provincia di Pisa. È stato fatto un confronto con altri Centri limitrofi ed abbiamo selezionato questo capannone esistente poiché ospitava già una palestra e accoglieva il bacino di utenza sia del Comune di pertinenza sia dei Comuni limitrofi. L'analisi effettuata ha preso spunto dalla conoscenza, dal principio άρχή (arché), delle strutture per la cura, il trattamento e l'intrattenimento del corpo e della mente, sia per gli edifici esistenti nella storia che nelle altre culture, per poi approfondire quali siano le esigenze del territorio e, in modo specifico, della popolazione. Un altro approfondimento è stato fatto con la letteratura studiando professionisti come Le Corbusier con i suoi 5 punti assiomatici di una nuova architettura e le proporzioni con il Modulor e come Bruno Zevi con le sue 7 invarianti dell'architettura moderna. L'occasione di scrivere questa tesi si ha sia con la riprogettazione di un fabbricato già esistente che con la costruzione di una struttura ex novo su un lotto di terreno ancora libero. Il nuovo edificio nascerà infatti nel lotto in aderenza a quello in oggetto di modifiche. Con l'unione delle due strutture si è realizzato il Centro Benessere denominato "IO", idea nata dalle rispettive forme planimetriche. Il fabbricato esistente, un capannone industriale, ha infatti linee rettilinee ed il perimetro è stilizzabile in un rettangolo, la "I". La struttura nuova è stata invece plasmata da tutti i vincoli, dalle normative esistenti, anche e soprattutto in campo di risparmio energetico e di sicurezza , il risultato finale è stata una superficie esterna circolare ed una copertura a tronco di cono obliquo rovescio, la "O". Considerando cha la minima superficie disperdente, data dal rapporto S/V, è quella della sfera, si è deciso, per ovvie ragioni economiche e di fruizione degli spazi interni, di realizzare un volume cilindrico. La scelta di una copertura a compluvio è stata perfezionata utilizzando l'asse del tronco di cono obliquo, scelta presa sia per la raccolta delle acque sia per fornire una maggiore superficie con una inclinazione favorevole ai raggi del sole per l'istallazione di pannelli fotovoltaici. Tutto ciò è stato pensato per massimizzare la copertura da fonti rinnovabili di acqua ed energia. Con Questo progetto si è inoltre cercato di realizzare un Centro Benessere "a misura d'uomo". Per iniziare a dimensionare il nuovo costruito e capire i limiti di una ristrutturazione per l'edificio esistente sono state analizzate, in via preliminare, tutte le normative sia il Regolamento Urbanistico, il Piano Strutturale, le Norme Tecniche Attuative per l'U.T.O.E 9 di Pian di Laura, la Legge Regionale Toscana e la Normativa di Prevenzione Incendi. L'edificio da riqualificare appartiene alla tipologia edilizia del capannone industriale, così come le altre strutture nella stessa strada Via Karol Wojtyla. Questo perché tutta l'area è stata realizzata in forza di un Piano Insediativo Produttivo (PIP). Approfondendo l'inquadramento territoriale, con lo studio del PIP e delle leggi edilizie e urbanistiche, sono stati fissati i vincoli preesistenti entro cui lavorare. Per realizzare entrambi i poli ho studiato l'antica evoluzione dell'individuo, sia nel confronto con gli altri, per migliorare sé stessi attraverso lo sport, sia nella cura del proprio IO attraverso la cura benefica dell'acqua, cura nata con la costruzione delle prime terme. La struttura è stata così suddivisa in un Aria Secca, a cui viene dedicato l'edificato esistente caratterizzato da una planimetria rettangolare, attualmente è ad uso palestra (I) e in un'Aria Umida a cui viene destinato il nuovo fabbricato a pianta circolare (O). Una volta individuate le funzioni attraverso gli Ambiti Funzionali Omogenei (AFO) si sono stabiliti gli specifici Ambiti Spaziali Omogenei (ASO) da cui abbiamo delineato percorsi sostanzialmente unici o a senso alternato per garantire una più semplice igienizzazione degli spazi e per evitare assembramenti anche nel rispetto delle odierne restrizioni anti-Covid. Tenendo ben salde le Normative di Sicurezza Antincendio e quelle per la fruibilità per le persone diversamente abili si sono stabiliti percorsi orizzontali tali da garantire vie di esodo facilmente identificabili (frecce verdi su pavimento bianco e porte con vetrate di colore diverso per tutta l'altezza del fabbricato) e con larghezza tale da permettere sempre la rotazione della sedia a rotelle a 360° ed il passaggio di 2 persone. Considerando la possibilità del cambio d'uso, essendo una struttura pubblica, il dimensionamento delle vie di esodo è stato effettuato in funzione del massimo affollamento possibile relativamente all'edificio in oggetto. Per l'accesso alle persone diversamente abili al secondo piano esistente è stato introdotto un ascensore antincendio adatto ed usufruibile da tutti. Tra gli spogliatoi comprensivi di servizi non vi è nessuna differenza, sono infatti tutti attrezzati per i diversamente abili, inoltre nessuno scalino e nessuna rampa creano percorsi distinti. Per la realizzazione delle stanze si è scelto di unire diversi concetti insieme, così da sollecitare l'attenzione e la curiosità degli utenti ma soprattutto per farli sentire "a casa". I nuovi volumi sono una combinazione tra: 7 colori dell'arcobaleno e il nero per un totale di 8 cilindri, oltre al colore bianco che servirà per i percorsi. Vere e proprie stanze che possiamo ritrovare usualmente nella nostra casa: Cucina, Pranzo, Salotto, Camera, Bagno, Soffitta, Cantina e Ripostiglio. 5 sensi del corpo umano - Olfatto, Gusto, Vista, Tatto e Udito - oltre all'idea di "Alto", di "Basso" e di "Centro". Ritenendo importante stimolare la curiosità degli Utenti e al contempo riprodurre quella sensazione che si ha la sera quando si rientra nella propria casa, si è deciso di unire queste 3 idee tra loro. ROSSO - OLFATTO - CUCINA, ARANCIONE - GUSTO - PRANZO, GIALLO - VISTA - SALOTTO, VERDE - TATTO - CAMERA, BLU - UDITO - BAGNO, INDACO - BASSO - CANTINA, VIOLA - ALTO - SOFFITTA, NERO - CENTRO - RIPOSTIGLIO, BIANCO - CORRIDOIO. L'involucro realizzato, sia per le pareti opache che nelle parti vetrate come nella nuova copertura è stato verificato in rispetto delle vigenti normative igro-termo energetiche. Sfruttando la costruzione decentrata del nuovo edificato è stato possibile realizzare piscine e spazi all'aperto per l'uso nelle giornate più calde. Si sono infine ipotizzate delle linee guida ed un linguaggio per determinare le "Invarianti dell'Architettura del Benessere". 1. Studio Preliminare - Territorio, Letteratura e Normativa 2. Energia - Forma Involucro 3. Ambiti Funzionali e Spaziali - Stanze 4. Percorsi Riconoscibili e Distanze Minime - Corridoi 5. Sicurezza Antincendio e Strutturale - Materiali 6. Fruibilità senza distinzioni - Struttura Nuova ad Unico Piano 7. Benessere della Struttura 8. Rapporto Interno ed Esterno – Luce ed Ombra Questo è stato almeno il mio ordine prioritario per progettare questo Centro Benessere. Se per una singola abitazione è necessario raccogliere i vincoli e le preferenze dei committenti che la andranno ad abitare allora l'obiettivo che questa Tesi ha cercato di centrare è stato quello di far sentire a casa propria ogni utente che fa ingresso nel Centro Benessere "IO". Almeno le Strutture Architettoniche dovrebbero farci sentire "Ugualmente Diversi" SUMMARY The choice to make a wellness center was carried out for: - The need to focus attention on the individual as part of a community, trying to build a place that brings out the primary importance of thinking of oneself, not as a form of selfishness or egocentrism, but as an opportunity to get to know each other Learn again to learn about others in an always construction comparison. I believe it is important to break down that wall that we are raising with bricks made of technology and screens, remembering the ancient teachings, addressed with sociology, summarized in the meaning of Agorà (from ancient Greek ἀγορά = collect, gather). In ancient Greece with this term the main square of the polis (city) was indicated, created with the awareness of the anestimable value that have open spaces and those common for the aggregation of individuals of different age, class and thought. - The possibility of building a building not for a single person or a family unit with similar habits, but to look for a "common language" in order to satisfy different needs and personalities. The problem is therefore to find a unique model of "building-building" that can fit into size to the individual and that at the same time, can enhance it and distinguish it from the others. The site under intervention is located in the hamlet of Laura, in the municipality of Crespina Lorenzana, in the province of Pisa. A comparison has been made with other neighboring centers and this existing shed was selected as it already housed a gym and welcomed the catchment area both of the municipality of relevance and neighboring municipalities. The analysis carried out has taken inspiration from the knowledge, from the principle άρχή (arché), the structures for the care, treatment and entertainment of the body and mind, both for the buildings existing in history and in other cultures, and then deepen What are the needs of the territory and, specifically, of the population. Another in-depth study was made with literature studying professionals such as Corbusier with its 5 axiomatic points of a new architecture and proportions with the Modulor and as Bruno Zevi with its 7 invariants of modern architecture. Writing this thesis was the opportunity to be redeemed an existing building that the design of a construction of an ex-novo structure on a lot of land still free. The new building will be born in the lot in adherence to that in the object of changes. With the union of the two structures the wellness center called "IO" was created, an idea born from the respective planimetric forms. The existing building, an industrial warehouse, has in fact straight lines and the perimeter is stiluable in a rectangle, the "I". The new structure was instead shaped by all constraints, existing regulations, also and above all in the field of energy saving and security. The final result was a circular external surface and a trunk cover of oblique reverse cone, the "o". Considering the minimum dispersing area, given by the S / V report, it is that of the sphere, it was decided, for obvious economic reasons and of the use of the interior spaces, to carry out a cylindrical volume. The choice of a complyed cover was perfected using the axis of the oblique cone trunk, choice socket both for the collection of water and to provide a greater surface with a tilt in favor of the sun's rays for the installation of photovoltaic panels. All this was designed to maximize roof from renewable water and energy sources. With this project we also tried to create a wellness center "to a human scale". To start sizing the new built and understanding the limits of a restructuring for the existing building have been analyzed, all the regulations are the urban regulation, the Structural Plan, the technical implementing rules for Utoe 9 by Pian di Laura, the regional Tuscan law and fire prevention legislation. The building to be redeveloped belongs to the building type of the industrial warehouse, as well as the other structures on the same street Via Karol Wojtyla. This is because the whole area has been carried out under a production settlement (PIP). Deepening the territorial framework, with the study of PIP and building and urban laws, pre-existing constraints have been set within which to work. To achieve both poles, I studied the ancient evolution of the individual, both in confrontation with others, to improve themselves through sports, both in the care of his ego through the beneficial care of water, cured with the construction of the Prime Terme. The structure was thus divided into a dry air, to which the existing building is dedicated characterized by a rectangular plan, is currently for gym (I) and in a wet air to which the new circular plant is destined (O). Once the functions are identified through the homogeneous functional areas (AFO) the specific homogeneous spatial areas (ASO) has been established from which we have outlined substantially unique or alternate routes to ensure easier sanitation of spaces and to avoid assemblies even in compliance with the Today anti-covid restrictions. Keeping fire safety regulations firmly and those for usability for disabled persons have established horizontal paths such as to guarantee easily identifiable exodus routes (green arrows on white floor and doors with different stained glass windows throughout the height of Manufactured) and with width to always allow rotation of the 360 ° wheelchair and passage of 2 people. Considering the possibility of the change of use, being a public structure, the dimensioning of the exodus routes was carried out according to the maximum possible crowding relative to the building in question. For access to people with disabilities at the second existing floor a suitable fire lift was introduced and usable by all. There are no difference between the changing rooms, there are no difference, they are all equipped for the disabled people, moreover no step and no ramp create distinct paths. For the realization of the rooms it was chosen to combine different concepts together, so as to urge the attention of users but above all to make them feel "at home". The new volumes are a combination of: - 7 colors of the rainbow and black for a total of 8 cylinders, in addition to the white color that will serve for the paths. - Real rooms that can usually find in our house: kitchen, lunch, living room, bedroom, bathroom, attic, cellar and storage room. - 5 senses of the human body - smell, taste, sight, touch and hearing - in addition to the idea of "high", of "low" and "center". Retentioning important to stimulate users' curiosity and at the same time reproduce that feeling that you have in the evening when you return to your home, you decided to join these 3 ideas between them. Red - Smell - Kitchen, Orange - Taste - Lunch, Yellow - View - Living room, Green - Tacto - Room, Blue - Hearing - Bathroom, Indigo - Low - Cellar, Viola - High - Attic, Black - Center - Closet, White - Corridor. The casing made, both for the opaque walls and in the glazed parts as in the new coverage has been verified in compliance with the current Igro-thermo energy regulations. Taking advantage of the decentralized construction of the new built it was possible to make swimming pools and outdoor spaces for use on the hottest days. Finally, guidelines and language were hypothesized to determine the "invariants of wellness architecture". 1. Preliminary study - territory, literature and regulations 2. Energy - wrap shape 3. Functional and spatial areas - Rooms 4. Recognizable paths and minimum distances - corridors 5. Fire protection and structural safety - materials 6. Usability without distinctions - new structure with single floor 7. Wellness of the structure 8. Internal and external relationship - light and shadow This was at least my priority order to design this wellness center. If for a single house it is necessary to collect the constraints and preferences of the clients who will then live the goal that this thesis was to make each user feel at home that enters the wellness center "I". At least architectural structures should make us feel "Equally Different".