PRACTICAL SPACE However, we have to be aware of the ‘clothes circuit’ inside the house, and Maintenance, storage and «forwarding also of the interruptions on its mainte- spaces» nance process. Additionally, all residues that nowadays come mainly from the The study of the clothes circuit on the kitchen activity, have to be sorted. No old house6 makes us identify three main matter how much space we dedicate to groups of household textile: the house it, it will never be enough. It is necessary furnishings, the underwear and the to arrange, within a comfortable dis- warm outer clothing. tance –ideally outside of the apartment but inside the building– a place to store Washing, caring and storing them take it until it is collected, which occurs with space and time, two precious goods. varying duration cycles. This kind of services and the kitchen tasks The apartment lobby/foyer becomes fit into the available time. crucial again, not to receive people but to store a great deal of items that we just The inter-individual relationships are not need when we leave the house. negatively affected by these tasks, quite the opposite, new possibilities for a better co-responsibility are raised. These kind of Fig.66. Arets. Apartamentos para gente mayor en Maastrich, Ho- organizations can be seen almost as be- landa. Véase el «berging»: espa- cio cerrado y reducido, se trata haviour inductors. [62-63-64] de una pieza equidistante de una sala de aguas y un closet / Senior housing in Maastricht. Holland. See berging, a kind of closed space, an equidistant Furthermore, this practical space strip, piece beetween a wet room and a closet. in its width, will offer space to hide the untidiness and relocate all the objects that could became a hazard because of being out of place; it could even be, eventually, a place for occasional ac- commodation. The ‘berging’ Dutch tradition, as well as the French ‘souillarde’ and ‘cellier’ pro- vide the kitchen with an extension, while freeing them from some storage duties. Fig.65. Alacena organizada (1923)y pullman / Organized cupboard and Pullman. In relation to the maintenance, acknowl- edging that for sweeping or cleaning we do not have to kneel down anymore, we have to point out that housework has been quite simplified nowadays. The required space to accomplish it is sub- stantially reduced since the first third of the 20th century and the fusion and in- corporation of activities is nothing new nowadays. t10918