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Figure 6: Post-occupancy customisation stage diagram.
This stage adapts to the Latin American pattern of self-construction. The designer participation in
the process finish when the design DnC is concreted.

Demonstration
The selected project is a typical low income home used in Brazil. This project was selected because the international company LP1 and the University of Londrina are making efforts to apply
the LP materials into this prototype in order to improve their thermal performance and promote
lower energy consumption; therefore, the authors decided appropriate to use it.

Project scenario
The project is a one storey home for a 4 member family with a floor area of 36 m2 conceived to be
constructed with traditional materials such as concrete bricks, wood and ceramic tiles. Windows
and doors are proposed to be single glazing with metal frames (Figs. 7, 8).
As already mentioned above, the designers contemplate that the user will have more necessities
in the future so they anticipate the following modifications (Fig. 9).

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