1st Place in the National Public Competition for Social Housing Projects promoted by the Goiás Council of Architecture and Urbanism - CAU/GO in partnership with the Goiânia Housing Agency - AGEHAB. ____ The house is inhabited not merely as a point, but throughout the entire familiar territory. It is the community that establishes the limits of this space, providing for rooting and appropriation. The recognition of the importance of this principle underpinned the main lines of the project. This housing development, consisting of 96 housing units, is arranged in a block over 280 meters long, excessively large for pedestrian scale. Therefore, we opted to create a pedestrian centrality, serving to shorten and vitalize routes, and reinforce the collective identity of the region by creating leisure spaces. The proposed architecture is also an invitation to social interaction, the combination of individual stepped units creates small niches among the apartments, with frontal setbacks, stairs, and shared access inviting urban interaction, in addition to enabling different types of combinations of the units, repeated or mirrored, creating a more textured, nuanced, dynamic, and less homogeneous look. Regarding the implementation of housing programs, cost is generally one of the main constraints. It is not only the cost of housing itself, but is also added to by the costs of land and infrastructure implementation that will enable the occupation of these communities. Our initial approach came from the proposal of a denser building, exploring municipal legislation and the competition notice, in order to increase the number of units per lot. This strategy not only allowed for the optimization of investments in infrastructure and the sharing of implementation and maintenance costs, but also made the creation of a more diverse, vibrant community possible, generating greater comfort and access to everyday facilities, fostering more exchanges, dynamizing the economy, and contributing to the increase of security. The integration of workspaces that can open onto the street, through the expansion of housing, as well as leisure areas, with the inclusion of a small square that divides the plot block in half, shortening routes and acting as a meeting space for the community, has the premise of accommodating the different functions that are part of good urban life. In this way, our proposal was conceived with the aim of optimizing investments, making a larger number of housing units per lot possible, and optimizing the execution, which makes the cost of each housing unit lower and ultimately enables the realization of the dream of home ownership for more families. The challenge of thinking about social housing is to create means for the low cost of construction not to be a limiting factor in providing dignity and quality of life: working with the minimum without limiting the quality of the environments, creating a diverse social atmosphere, full of encounters and possibilities, that instills pride in the residents. These homes were designed to be lived in intensively, envisioned to support the dreams of families: a child's, a business's, a future's. The project includes units of approximately 55 m² arranged in 48 overlapping house typologies: a ground floor unit, with access to the back garden, and another upper unit. Each unit has 1 parking space and the possibility of a physical expansion of approximately 11.5 m²; reaching a total of 134.48 m² of constructed area per lot, of 150 m². The homes have 2 bedrooms and can be expanded to the rear, generating a third or a workspace, with external access in the ground floor apartment. Internal adaptation was ensured by providing for the replacement of a window with an internal door, providing access to the new room. This window can be reused in the facade of the expansion, also ensuring the identity of the ensemble. Access to the first floor apartment is via a side staircase, which grows in size when connecting to the neighboring unit, bringing relationships closer together, while not sacrificing the privacy of each dwelling. The facade allows for a variety of arrangements and visual aspects, both in their different layouts, together with the neighboring residence or separately, and in contrast with the external finishes chosen from the stepped, which can vary from exposed block to stucco, plaster, and paint, bringing visual identity to each set of modules. Ground floor units adapted for people with disabilities were provided for, ensuring comfortable housing that meets the specific needs of the residents. Structural masonry with concrete blocks was chosen as the construction system, a system of easy execution and low implementation cost already widespread in Brazilian construction. To facilitate and reduce the cost of hydraulic installations, wet areas - bathrooms, kitchens, and laundries - were concentrated. The arrangement of the floor plans allows for different perspectives of the landscape since they have openings to the two opposite facades, providing for natural air circulation through cross ventilation. Another passive strategy for environmental comfort adopted was the shading of the facades through the projection of the balconies, something of great importance in Goiânia, which has high temperatures for much of the year. In addition to solar heating, the reuse of rainwater is proposed through capture on the roof areas - stored in cisterns under the stairs - which can be used later for irrigation, cleaning of common areas, and in the apartment bathrooms.