Panama houses?

Question

I'm doing a 'global focus' for school and I've been assigned what hosues are made out of in panama. i need answers for lower class, middle, and upper class. any links for any of these would seriously be appreciated.

Answer 1

Beutiful houses like USA for upper class with amazing pools, sometimes they also have a beautiful beach or country house and/or a penthouse on a the tallest buildings of Latin America facing the beutiful Panama Bay/coast.

Middle Class have chalets or duplex made of concrete, nice roof and almost always a wall bourdering the house and with roof where people meet every weekend for some kind of mini parties with friends or family, they use to also have a beach or country house.

For lower class, it depends:

On the city there are chalets houses (no more than 200 square meters) made of concretes and trying have a wall sorunding it. Some other peoples live on small buildings of either concrete or wood. Few live on houses made of wood.

On the country, it is the same for upper and middle class, but for lower classs , they may live on houses made of concrete, and even zinc plies or a mix of mud, clay or sand.

Answer 2

I don't have specific links... don't know of any that exist.

ALL of the multi-rises (over 2 stories) rich or poor are made of reinforced (rebar) concrete pillars with clay brick walls, then plaster finished.  Lower middle class to upper class homes are ALL constructed this way too.  Difference is that the nicer middle class to top notch homes have gypsum walls and ceilings.  The cheaper ones have only concrete walls with concrete ceilings or dropped ceilings (the acoustic kind you find in an average office).  All have single pane windows, some with tinted glass.

Now the poor (which is half to nearly two thirds of the population)... in the city they live in similar materials to the middle and upper class only the quality of finish is generally much worse and sometimes they don't have doors or windows either!  That is actually quite common here.  In the interior (countryside), beaches or islands it is often that you will see people living in tin shacks, homes made with mangrove for the walls and scrap tin for the roof and random concrete block are very common.  The concrete block will have absolutely no windows or finishes.  Wood however, is not so common although you will see it, but it is dilapidated from termites, always.

Roofs on expensive homes have tiles or a finished flat roof.  Everything else is corrugated metal, tin, plastic or thatched "palapa" style roof for the hard up poor.  You don't see composite shingles here.

In closing, it's basically a society built of concrete.  The more money a person has the better the finish of their concrete.

Answer 3

plz visit Wikipedia, n look out for panama houses.