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Spatially, this skin also redirects people's local tendency to put bars
on their windows, becoming itself the border and the filter.
Sometimes the direct limit of the internal house spaces, the shell is
at other times a first filter of sunlight and heat, doubled by internal
handcrafted wood-lattice shutters. In this way, light is generous
and heat is broken down.
The filtering shell was to ensure privacy regarding the proximity of
the road, and that of the neighbours in the adjacent plots: a
building of flats on one side, a private house on the other with a
risk of major residential development.
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