Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 159, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1910 — HOUSES IN A CIRCLE. [ARTICLE]

HOUSES IN A CIRCLE.

A Buenos Ayres Architect’s New Idea In Bnlldine. Buenos Ayres has an architect In Prof. Pierre Roveda who has devised a special plan for building whole districts of houses for the workingman. Instead of erecting the houses on the ordinary square block Prof. Roveda has used a circle which has a diameter of from 100 to 130 yards. This circle of ground is divided into thirty-nine radial lots converging to a center. The circle is concentrically divided to form an interior avenue four yards broad to allow communication with the center of the circle. Each avenue leads to external sidewalks and to longitudinal and transverse streets. In the center of the circle is a plot of 40 yards in diameter where children may be left to themselves without their parents’ care, in charge of a specially designated person. In this garden a playroom, a school, a hospital, a fire station and, an administration room are to be found. Naturally this circular plot of ground leaves free four corners. In each of these four corners the professor proposes to build four chalets, such as grocery shops, dairies, haberdasheries and the like, which are intended to be carried on In a co-oper-ative way. In each of the ninety-nine radial plots a workingman’s house Is to be erected on the English plan. Prof. Roveda argues for his circular arrangement that it will give continuous sunshine at all hours of the day and plenty of light and air.—Chieago Tribune.