Havana Slums

Template:Infobox locationThe Havana slums is a neighborhood on the north side of Havana, South of the HCC ( Havana Cookie Company). It is a collection of ill maintained looking building cramped up against eachother. Meant as an example of the basic Havana building style in the northern part of the City.

History:

After the city tour of Havana video made by ReNDoG, an influx of players willing to build in Havana was expected. And whilst in the west part of the city there were plenty of buildings in the buildstyle of Havana, the northern part had almost none. Aside from the HCC and a few buildings that did not adhere to the Havana buildstyle.

To help players who wanted to build on the northern side of the city, get a good idea on what kind of buildings were welcome in Havana, Construction was started on building slums south of the HCC and north of the Akkaran embassy. To be able to do this some old builds from players no longer active on the server were altered or removed. The new buildings built on those places used as much of the blockpallet as possible as a nod to the former build, whilst adhering to the proper buildstyle of Havana.

The design and contruction of the slums has been done by Max_Argos

Architecture:

All the buildings within the slums follow the basic idea of the Havanan build style, which means that they are colorfull tall and small buildings with flat roofs (as seen in the real life version of Havana). They stand out from other buildings, however, because of the "cracks" in the walls made with concrete powder, as well as the broken down state of many of the sandstone balconies.

Most of the buildings have a front and a rear entrance, where the front entrance often leads to a store, the rear entrance leads to the appartments above the store. Interior wise, every appartment is cramped to almost inhuman degree. Balconies and rooftop access gives each of the buildings a little bit more room to breath. You can find small farms, water towers, advertisements and small huts on the roofs.

Layout:

The slums have been built in three stages, to eventually create a small neighborhood. with all the buildings cramped up against eachother. As the interior of the appartments do not leave much room for anything other then sleeping and eating, many of the basic needs missing from these building can be found in the community facilities like the living room, the toilets and showers. This is suplemented by the presence of a elementary school, a community centre for relaxation as well as a small chapel.

There is no street to speak of between these facilities and appartments, just one small alleyway curving around and through the buildings, eventually connecting to the waterfront on the south side of the slums and the HCC on the north.

Stage 1: consists of three shops built on the waterfront across from the Akkaran Embassy, next to the Phantom attack shelter. A small start of the alleyway was also constructed

Stage 2: consists of the elementary school for the underpriviledged. A sewer entrance was added to the alleyway.

Stage 3: consists of the community living room, the chapel, the community centre as well as 2 new stores on the waterfront. The alleyway was also completed.

Lore

Havana is not a city with any lore background, and thus does not provide any reason for the slums to exist other than the aforementioned reasons of having an example of the Havanan buildstyle in the northern part of the city. However it's builder, Max_Argos, has provided a small book to the Havana Library detailing a story on how he thought the slums might have come to be. It can be found in the Havana section of the library.