New Roma Settlement at Sofades, Karditsa, Thessaly

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καταστήματα stores

κλειστά σχήματα closed schemes

οδικό δίκτυο road net

καφενεία coffee bars

σχολείο school

Provision of shells The shells of the settlement are not organised in a specific way. It is difficult to recognize certain shapes. The shells are not articulated around a common place.Their back facades are often turned towards natural and artificial obstacles which set the space of each property.There is no total provision that’s why their orientation is unstable. All the above are mentioned on the following map. As the map shows, there are no further partitions. The new shells are built close to the older shells, by increasing and extending the preexisting house. According to the inhabitants of the settlement the neighbourhoods in the settlement are formed because of the larger spatial concentrations of the houses which belong to each family. Houses In the old settlement,is not obvious a specific housing typology. There are smaller and larger houses. Roma people insist on preserving their different way of life through mores, customs and cultural specificities-inspite of their coexistence with the society. All these define a specific type of 11


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