The document traces the evolution of housing structures from early human shelters in caves around 750,000 years ago to modern housing designs that integrate nature and sustainability. It describes the transition from simple wood and bone structures to organized communities with planned housing areas, and the development of housing styles in ancient civilizations like Catalhoyuk, Mesopotamia, and Rome. The summary concludes with examples of modern sustainable housing designs that aim to minimize environmental impact.

1. Caverns

2. 750.000 years ago: Caverns

3. 40.000 years ago, wood-frame shelters

4. Refuge mammoth bones: 18.000 years ago

5. 7.000 a.C.: Çatal Hüyük

6. c. 6.000 a.C. :Iglú
Arctic Eskimos for
"igloo" means a house

7. c. 4000 B.C. : Housing lake
The typical house was
wooden house on stilts
or on platforms
supported by piles driven
into the bottom of lakes.
Internal view

8. Shacks

9. The beehive houses, usually made of adobe or stone houses are
made of two bodies; circular or conical main one which is attached
to it a second square, lowest.
Housing in Mesopotamia

10. Cathedral
Central Plaza
Town Hall
Perimeter wall
Housing
Organized new city

11. Roman house

12. Inside a Roman house

13. La Rioja in the Bronze Age

14. Houses made of mud and tree trunks

15. Modern house Integrated nature with civilization.

16. Modern house

17. Ecological house

18. Ecological house

19. Cottage

20. Country cottage (Wood)

21. Siedlung Halen, row housing project
developed by Atelier 5 study between 1956
and 1961 in Herrenschwanden, Switzerland

22. Vertical unit owned homes Madrid Spain