In this first point we want to analyse the different characteristics of the typical house present in the different place assigned by the course.
Havana
The first one is Havana, the capital city, largest city, province, major port, and leading commercial center of Cuba. The city has a population of 2.1 million inhabitants, and it spans a total of 728.26 km2 – making it the largest city by area, the most populous city, and the fourth largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean region. The city extends mostly westward and southward from the bay, which is entered through a narrow inlet and which divides into three main harbors. The sluggish Almendares River traverses the city from south to north, entering the Straits of Florida a few miles west of the bay. Havana, like much of Cuba, has a tropical climate that is tempered by the island's position in the belt of the trade winds and by the warm offshore currents. Under the climate classification, Havana has a tropical savanna climate that closely borders on a tropical monsoon climate. Average temperatures range from 22 °C in January and February to 28 °C in August. The temperature seldom drops below 10 °C. The lowest temperature was 1 °C in Santiago de Las Vegas, Boyeros. The lowest recorded temperature in Cuba was 0°C in Bainoa, Mayabeque Province. Rainfall is heaviest in June and October and lightest from December through April, averaging 1,200 mm annually. Hurricanes occasionally strike the island, but they ordinarily hit the south coast, and damage in Havana has been less than elsewhere in the country city with a typically hot temperature especially in the summer season, for this reason the typically housing is made by the aim to maintenance the temperature in the building mild and fresh in the hottest days. Due to the large number of the hours in comfort period, the climate inside the building is not very critical, only in the time of very high temperature the designer need to have a temperature control (in the summer season).