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In the city of Bahia, the ingenuity of the owner a local constrains produced a beautiful 1,1 m wide house, the house is now a tourist attraction...and there was no architect involved. Photos / articles 1 & 2 (in portuguese). Babelfish funny translation inside.
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House ' apertadinha ' constructed in Madre de Deus (BA) has less than 2 m of width to support 3 floors. E it still goes to gain covering. The house could not be in more appropriate place: Madre de Deus, the lesser city of the Bahia - with only 11 km2, the equivalent the three University Cities of the University of São Paulo (USP) -, little more than the 50 km of Salvador, in the Bay of All the Saints. Who sees, then it perceives that some divine force the foot insurance. Are three floors balanced in an area of less than 2 meters of width, sheltering two rooms, cook, three suÃtes and one varanda. Everything apertadinho. Opening the arms, it is possible to lean the hands in the walls. The colorful residence arrived at the knowledge of the State for a photo sent for Real Valter to the FotoRepórter project, where any person can register scenes of the daily one and send them it the writing - the selected images gain prominence in the site and can be published in the periodical. The photo called the attention the news article, that entered in contact with the owner of the house, Helenita Serious Queiroz Minho, of 43 years. The "project" was of authorship of proper it. "I wanted to use to advantage tudinho what he had of land", the inhabitant said, who lives with the husband, Antonio Landmark, of 46, three children, the mother, the sister and a dog.
Everything started with a "small room of bagunça" that Helenita had idea to construct in the deep ones of the house to keep the toys of the son, of 8 years. Later, Helenita was dismissed and decided to use to advantage a "land remaining portion" to construct another house, that, rented, would be an income source. The problem was the land, very narrow. Antonio landmark found maluquice of the woman. "Until the mason he found stranger when I ordered the service, but I said for it: ' a well good structure Makes that I go to go up a house there.' E two floors went up. Still it gives pra plus one." Exactly distrustful, the mason accepted the service, but he was soon informing that to that "he would not give no way certain". E defied: "Nor a refrigerator enters in a house of these". In fact, the furniture had had of being disassembled to enter in the house. The refrigerator was placed by goes in the deep ones, where the width is a little bigger of the one than in the front. Finished the workmanship with two suÃtes, room and kitchen, Helenita was not given for satisfied. It convinced Antonio Landmark to use dinheirinho kept to complete the house of its dreams with plus a room, another room and bathroom and one varanda. "They had been two years of fight", says. E casinha new, that it started modest, finished greater the one that the old one. Today, the first house relieves to the family R$ 700 for rent month. Already a new residence, Helenita does not rent nor vende "for nothing". "I do not change to mine casinha for money none", says, proud to see finished its workmanship. "It is stronger and insurance of that the others. Not scale nor with strong wind." In the beginning, the city hall created problems, but with the plant it finished accepting the workmanship, that today turned tourist point cidadezinha of 12 a thousand inhabitants. In the front of the house, it has banks where the tourists pass the time seated to observe the stranger construction. Some, more curious, ask for to enter and to take off photos. Helenita leaves. The couple now has plans to construct to one room floor, in the covering, "opened, for leisure, with churrasqueira and everything". Adriana Figurehead, Juca Varella-Oesp-18/07/06
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