"uuid","repository link","title","author","contributor","publication year","abstract","subject topic","language","publication type","publisher","isbn","issn","patent","patent status","bibliographic note","access restriction","embargo date","faculty","department","research group","programme","project","coordinates"
"uuid:38c48022-20b5-468f-b026-5d892f569ba2","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:38c48022-20b5-468f-b026-5d892f569ba2","Degrees of Encounter: Densification Strategies to Alleviate Urban Loneliness in Post-War Neighbourhoods","Hendi, Alaa (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Mooij, H.A.F. (mentor); Guis, R.S. (mentor); Eckardt, H.F. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2024","The growing concern about a mental health crisis and a looming threat of the loneliness epidemic worldwide that was further escalated by the COVID-19 pandemic forced people into isolation and created a new form of ‘work from home’ lifestyle. Nonetheless, the loneliness epidemic can be traced back to the 19th-century design principles that designed our current cities with reference to industrial tools such as the car instead of the ‘human scale’. Many of these modernist ideals had negative implications on the mental health of the residents in post-war districts. Moreover, with the need to build more homes, the current housing market values densification strategies that are primarily for profit and not for the needs of the people, which continues the pattern of ‘living together apart’. Consequently, there is an urgency to tackle isolation among the inhabitants of Groot-IJsselmonde, specifically Thamerdijk and post-war neighbourhoods being primarily targeted for future densification schemes. Interventions are therefore required to encourage degrees of social encounter. A research-based approach explored within five different lenses, sociological, historical, urban, building and dwelling scale is translated into a design project that could potentially allow for more positive densification for both current and future residents.","Loneliness; Densification; Housing Crisis; Post-war Architecture; Urban Loneliness; Psychology; Transformation; Co-Housing; Social Housing; Modernism","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Advanced Housing Design","","51.8800169, 4.5490452"
"uuid:0e95f2d6-14eb-425c-8826-a1665c214531","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:0e95f2d6-14eb-425c-8826-a1665c214531","Living labs for user empowerment and value delivery in social housing upgrading processes","Kowaltowski, D.C.C.K. (University of Campinas); Gomes da Silva, V. (University of Campinas); van Oel, C.J. (TU Delft Design & Construction Management); Granja, A.D. (University of Campinas); Muianga, E.A.D. (University of Campinas); Kabisch, S. (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ); De Carvalho Moreira, D. (University of Campinas); Koolwijk, J.S.J. (TU Delft Design & Construction Management); Pößneck, J. (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ)","","2024","Upgrading existing social housing (SH) requires user-centred participatory processes to promote values. Comparative case studies in Brazil, Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK are presented. Living Labs (LLs) were conducted for the delivery of user values and to promote an informed decision-making process. Tools and LL activities were tested to engage stakeholders in the upgrading process, support the co-creation of solutions and address social and societal challenges. The main research aims were to facilitate SH upgrading processes focusing on the delivery of value for users, achieving end-user empowerment, as well as assessing participatory decision-making through LLs. Research goals were achieved in each case study setting. The evaluation of specific cases informed a conceptual framework and guidelines to facilitate upgrading through LLs in varied SH landscapes.","user-centred design; participatory design; case studies; living labs; social housing upgrading","en","journal article","","","","","","","","","","","Design & Construction Management","","",""
"uuid:be41d02b-a120-4191-96c6-1fb06e88e7c2","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:be41d02b-a120-4191-96c6-1fb06e88e7c2","Towards a circular building industry through digitalisation: Exploring how digital technologies can help narrow, slow, close, and regenerate the loops in social housing practice","Çetin, Sultan (TU Delft Real Estate Management)","Gruis, V.H. (promotor); Straub, A. (promotor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2023","The concept of Circular Economy (CE) has emerged as a promising alternative to the current linear economy, decoupling economic activity from the depletion of natural resources and promoting a restorative and regenerative system. The transition of the building industry to a circular one can be achieved through four core resource principles: Narrow (minimising the use of primary resources), slow (extending the lifetime of buildings and products), close (regaining post-use and construction waste through reuse or recycling), and regenerate (minimising toxic substances and maximising the use of renewable resources). These principles provide a framework for exploring the role of digitalisation in the transition of social housing organisations (SHOs) toward circular housing practices, with a focus on European SHOs, particularly those in the Netherlands. This thesis follows a structured format comprising six chapters, with four of them encapsulating the author’s published articles. Chapter 1 serves as the introduction, providing a contextual foundation for the research. It outlines the overarching theme of the thesis, which revolves around the intersection of CE, digitalisation, and the built environment, with a specific focus on SHOs. The chapter sets the stage by identifying the gaps in existing literature, emphasising the need for a comprehensive conceptualisation of this emerging research field. It further delves into essential methodological aspects, the problem statement, and the broader significance of the research. In Chapter 2, the research delves into an exploration of the current state of CE implementation in Dutch SHOs and provides insights into the pressing barriers, and potential enablers. A Delphi study conducted with 21 social housing professionals reveals that, as of 2020, SHOs were in an experimental phase, incorporating circular construction techniques in pilot projects. Barriers encompass organisational priorities, operating within a linear system, and a lack of awareness. Also, financial challenges related to the costs of circular materials also emerge as significant hurdles. Chapter 3 develops a framework, the Circular Digital Built Environment Framework, in an exploratory qualitative research approach. This conceptual model integrates CE principles with digital technologies to provide an understanding of their potential applications within the built environment. The framework is constructed through expert workshops, literature reviews, and evaluations of current research and practices, resulting in the identification of over ten key digital technologies. These technologies encompass a broad spectrum, including big data analytics, blockchain technology, and material passports. The framework not only informs subsequent empirical studies but also serves as a valuable guide for scholars and industry practitioners navigating the intersection of digitalisation and circularity in the building industry. Chapter 4 presents an analysis of how enabling digital technologies, identified in Chapter 3, are practically employed in real-life practices, specifically within circular new build, renovation, maintenance, and demolition projects of forerunner Dutch SHOs. Employing a multiple-case study approach, the chapter gathers empirical evidence from three large-scale SHOs through semi-structured interviews, desk research, and extensive data analysis. The within-case and cross-case analyses reveal insights into the types of digital technologies being deployed, their impact on circular practices, and the challenges encountered in their adoption. By examining the real-world examples, Chapter 4 contributes to the evolving domain of digitalisation for a circular building industry. Chapter 5 addresses the challenges associated with data (identified in Chapter 4), with a specific focus on material passports as a crucial tool for circularity in existing housing stock. Employing a multiphase mixed-method research design, the chapter utilises the SCOPIS method (Supply Chain-Oriented Process to Identify Stakeholders) for user and data mapping. This approach results in a data template outlining the requirements of users for material passports. Subsequently, the study tests this template through a case study, identifying critical data gaps and proposing a material passports framework to address these gaps. By leveraging both digital technologies and human expertise, Chapter 5 offers solutions to enhance data management in the pursuit of circularity within the building industry. The findings contribute to ongoing industry and policy initiatives. Chapter 6, the concluding chapter, consolidates the exploration conducted throughout the thesis. It presents the overarching contributions of the research, offering a summary of the scientific and practice contributions and recommendations derived from the entire study.","cicular economy; building; digitalisation; material passports; circular buildings; social housing","en","doctoral thesis","A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment","978-94-6366-786-9","","","","","","","","","Real Estate Management","","",""
"uuid:de7f1d3e-3c86-4886-88ba-82046959da15","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:de7f1d3e-3c86-4886-88ba-82046959da15","Sense of Place within Transience: Reconfiguring housing efficiency and resilience in Sao Paulo’s peripheral urban condition","Torbica, Angelina (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Mota, Nelson (mentor); Mooij, H.A.F. (mentor); Schnater, F.R. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2023","Sao Paulo, Brazil, a megacity home to 22.4 million inhabitants as of 2022 has “one of the most inequitable distributions of wealth in the world” (Caldeira 1996, 303). In the various districts, the inequality either shouts or whispers its presence. An open city, where the street-scape is the backdrop for social convergence, segregates itself in Sao Paulo as a space of clear definition of the haves and have-nots. Within the urban condition “…the physical distances separating rich and poor have decreased at the same time that the mechanism to keep them apart have become more obvious and more complex” (Caldeira 1996, 304). As Brazil’s economic and political conditions exponentially shifted so did the reshaping of the built landscape – with that, the right to the city for the urban poor became intangible. Through the process of ‘autoconstruction’ even the poorest of citizens could gain access to the city. However, due to economic restructuring, new generations are even more at a disadvantage to precarious living conditions.
On the opposite spectrum, for the well-off, the current city skyline is arrayed with inward turned urban enclaves; congruently polarizing amenities once connected to the public street (i.e., parks, residential complexes, schools). These vertical communities retain all that is necessary within a private and autonomous space and can be positioned almost anywhere, independent of their context. In many cases, they are placed at the periphery directly neighboring auto-constructed settlements. As Caldeira coins it, “…Sao Paulo is today a city of walls” as the disparity between classes became something quite defined and accepted with the fear of crime fueling changes to all forms of public exchange (Caldeira 1996, 307). Within this, emerges a dynamic, one of codependence. The poor rely on the city for financial prosperity; the wealthy rely on the labor of the poor.
As the government begins to address housing for the city’s most marginalized through large-scale residential blocks – as a means to domesticate the transient realities of Sao Paulo’s contemporary urban condition - the notions of social segregation are still wide and apparent. As the favela is stigmatized with housing a certain social class, so is the governmental housing, and so is the urban enclave. Each environment has become categorical; of separate and unequal atmospheres devoid of connection. However, is there a way for these atmospheres to communicate? In his book, Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City, Richard Sennett refers to three types of repair: restoration, remediation, and reconfiguration. In the case of Grajau – a peripheral district of Sao Paulo constituting for a majority of the city’s urban poor – Sennett’s ideas of repair can be disseminated within its changing context. Restoration, looking to accept the exiting approaches to marginalized housing. The second, remediation, looking to build upon existing solutions, interchanging and exchanging certain elements for an improved whole. Lastly, reconfiguration giving space for new typologies with the use of existing forms. This brings into question:
How could a kit-of-parts approach marry the efficiency of a top-down approach & the resilience of a bottom-up approach to enable place-making in self-built settlements of Grajau?
a. How can participatory process be a part of the planning process for social housing?
b. What spatial structures help create/enable the development of social cohesion in self-built settlements?
c. How can a catalogue of dwelling types adapt and meet community needs over time?
Through the combination of architectural and ethnographic research methods, the study uncovers the unique cultural nuances and spatial needs of Ethiopian dwellers. It challenges stereotypes associated with informal settlements, revealing unexpected similarities in how residents creatively appropriate their homes, irrespective of architectural differences. The subsequent design proposal for a housing complex in Yeka Abado integrates formal and informal elements, emphasizing flexibility, communal spaces, and income-generating opportunities.
The thesis advocates for a holistic, inclusive approach in architecture, emphasizing the importance of incorporating cultural heritage and community engagement. The design project serves as a conceptual exploration rooted in extensive research, aiming to bridge the gap between modern design concepts and traditional practices for inclusive and culturally responsive housing solutions.","social housing; Addis Ababa; informality; formality; Sefer; Condominium; incrementally; living culture; modular housing; Compressed Earth Block; Yeka Abado; appropriation; socio-spatial; Ethnography; flexibility","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Building Technology","","9.005401, 38.763611"
"uuid:23e799bd-b27c-463d-b06a-7846aa2dd638","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:23e799bd-b27c-463d-b06a-7846aa2dd638","Risk, Resettlement, & Renewal: Mitigating the displacement of vulnerable São Paulo residents from areas of ecological risk without proper infrastructure","Shymanski, Geneviève (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Mooij, H.A.F. (mentor); Mota, Nelson (mentor); Verkuijlen, S.H. (mentor); Welle Donker, F.M. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2023","As the Global South continues to rapidly urbanize, finding affordable and sustainable housing solutions is paramount. The Global Housing Graduation studio provides the opportunity to design new housing typologies through environmental and social lenses. São Paulo’s challenges with rapid urbanization and social inequality has left more than a million residents vulnerable to the impacts of water scarcity, lack of public infrastructure, climate, environmental risk, and climate change. Urban expansion during São Paulo’s economic boom in the 1970s led to a considerable increase of illegal land occupations in the city’s peripheries. The development of the informal settlements formed in the peripheries thus superseded the speed at which proper public infrastructure for potable water, sanitation and electricity could be implemented.
Residents in the peripheral neighborhoods occupy open land in areas of varying environmental risk, susceptible to soil degradation, flooding, landslides, and health risks due to waste discharge. They cannot access publicly supplied water or sanitation and must rely on water cisterns, illegal connections or self-made sanitation disposal to acquire the necessary infrastructure to lead a healthy life. These risks, in addition to the future risks of climate change, disproportionally impact those living in informal settlements, due to their social vulnerability and socio-economic status.
Development-induced displacement of residents within informal settlements is enforced by the São Paulo municipal government, to permit the implementation of public infrastructure such as water lines, sanitation, drainage, street paving, and the removal of housing structures in at-risk areas. While the purpose of displacement contributes towards a positive outcome - upgrading neighborhoods with much-needed services, or rehousing residents to safer environments – the social impact of displacement is palpable. Forced displacement may move residents away from their sources of income and social networks, considerably impacting their mental well-being or exposing them to financial precarity. Readaptation to new neighborhoods or lifestyles can also be difficult for residents.
The project seeks to create a balance between social and climate resiliency to address the challenges of environmental risk and resettlement. The project proposes a new social housing system, built on the principles of clustering and the Radburn Plan, to achieve an urban design which integrates public space with rainwater flows, public infrastructure, and housing. The project location, Jardim Campinas in Grajaú, São Paulo, is used as a framework for the urban system to rehouse displaced residents from various communities onto one site. The socio-ecological design approach is implemented at each scale – urban plan, sector, cluster, and dwelling unit. The design aim is a renewal of the urban fabric, by building upon existing social and ecological networks to reinvigorate social connections and relationships between natural and built environment.","Global Housing; Social Housing; Sao Paulo; climate adaptation; Displacement; Risks; Flooding resilience; urban renewal; social resilience; Brazil","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Global Housing","","-23.77, -46.704"
"uuid:ef66de06-1b1d-4da0-bd37-4c875ef3e2f6","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ef66de06-1b1d-4da0-bd37-4c875ef3e2f6","Comparing municipal performance agreements: policy contexts and social housing policies in Amsterdam and Rotterdam","de Klein, Joes (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft Management in the Built Environment)","Elsinga, M.G. (mentor); van der Heijden, H.M.H. (graduation committee); Oxenaar, A.J. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2023","The Netherlands has faced a significant housing shortage for years, with a deficit of over 300,000 dwellings. This shortage is prevalent in both the owner-occupied and rental sectors, particularly in social housing. With national average waiting times of seven years, and up to twenty years in major cities, the issue is pressing. Housing associations, governed by the national Housing Act of 2015, play a crucial role in providing affordable housing to vulnerable and low-income groups. However, there is a noticeable discrepancy in the social housing development policies between Rotterdam and Amsterdam. This research aims to understand the differences in the municipal performance agreements of these two cities, considering both municipal context and policy. The study delves into the municipal policy context, policy differences at the municipal level, and a comparative policy analysis of the performance agreements in both cities. Through in-depth interviews, the research seeks to explain the variations in the performance agreements from the perspective of municipal context and policy. The findings reveal that both the municipal policy context and the social housing policy play a fundamental role in explaining the differences in performance agreements between Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Despite operating under the same national Housing Act, the cities’ distinct social compositions, political climates, and financial capabilities have led to notable differences in their agreements. Amsterdam’s approach is characterized by a focus on tenant welfare and inclusivity, while Rotterdam adopts a more result-oriented, efficiency-driven approach, with a specific emphasis on the mid-range rental segment. The influence of umbrella organizations and the absence of a centralized tenant association in Rotterdam also contribute to the disparities. This study contributes to the understanding of municipal performance agreements in the context of social housing, providing insights that could be useful for policy development and evaluation. The methodology used in this research could also be applied to other Dutch municipalities, offering a comprehensive framework for analyzing social housing policies and performance agreements.","social housing; policy context; municipal policy; performance agreements; Amsterdam; Rotterdam","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Management in the Built Environment","",""
"uuid:25fe9690-db71-4613-9728-f16ca9454e88","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:25fe9690-db71-4613-9728-f16ca9454e88","Interlocking wood-to-wood joinery connections with moisture induce process: Interlocking optimization of digital manufactured households: an alternative construction system as solution for affordable housing in Colombia","Cruz Rojas, Juan (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Koskamp, G. (mentor); de Ruiter, P. (graduation committee); Salzberger, M.F. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2023","From a global perspective, the building industry is one of the significant factors of environmental impact on the planet. Related activities in this industry refer to 40% of total carbon emissions; 28% of this value accounts for building operations, while the remaining 12% represents the manufacturing of new construction materials. Studies have revealed that 90% of construction waste comes from demolition (Ahn et al., 2022). Wood as a construction material is an uprising in the building practice due to its carbon storage capabilities and prefabricated possibilities (Gong, 2021). Prefabricated timber constructions can benefit rural Colombia's social reconstruction with the help of digital fabrication technologies. Likewise, this method could bring better performance of materials and its End of Life (EOL) (Ahn et al., 2022). Nevertheless, research has identified wood-to-wood timber connections as a gap in the academia to tackle better design, manufacture, assembly, and deconstruction (DfMA + D) in the field (Mehra et al., 2021). The following study aims to investigate the application of CNC technologies to fabricate novel and affordable wood joinery connection solutions for the construction of rural housing in Colombia. This research emphasizes the cooperation of the wood material to moisture fluctuation, with the aim of introducing a more sustainable and efficient assembly method.","DfMA; Digital Fabrication; Wood-To-Wood connections; Novel Joints; Social Housing; Equilibrium moisture content of wood; EMC; Pre fabrication; Colombia; Sawn Timber; CNC; PRE-FAB Housing","en","master thesis","","","","","","https://online.fliphtml5.com/pfbvw/dfwn/#p=1 Thesis Book","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Building Technology","",""
"uuid:dde0535e-0b8d-4b54-b605-32e339f6c9a1","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:dde0535e-0b8d-4b54-b605-32e339f6c9a1","Social Quandaries: understanding the quirks and features of London’s post-war social housing architecture","de Haas, Lucas (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Kuijper, J.A. (mentor); van der Meij, A.M.R. (mentor); Fokkinga, J.D. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2023","In social quandaries is an analysis of three council housing estates dating back to the 1960s, all situated within the Greater London area. The analytical framework was informed by the book “Paris Haussmann: A Model’s Relevance,” which extensively examines the Haussmann plan in Paris, employing various mediums such as writing, drawing, and photography to explain its characteristics across different dimensions.
Drawing upon the research, my study concludes in several recommendations that form the foundational basis of my research-based design. These principles have been derived from a qualitative analysis of the estates, incorporating insights from two books that cover various factors that are crucial in establishing architectural and urban spatial quality. The principles are: facilitating interaction and vegetation, the incorporation of pedways and walkways, densification, mixed typologies, a multifunctional plinth, and the inclusion of courtyards.
Consequently, the design process that has been undertaken centers around these guiding principles, using them as primary elements to create architectural and spatial quality within the redevelopment of a London council estate.
By doing this I try to complete my design objective, which is to demonstrate the value present in the social housing stock of 1960s London, emphasizing the importance of preserving or redeveloping these buildings rather than resorting to demolition.","social housing; London; redevelopment strategy; Social inclusion; 1960s London social housing; Reuse","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Architectural Design Crossovers","Heterogeneous London","51.55133849457881,-0.1555299442800151."
"uuid:e76974c0-ae8f-44ab-ab5a-3fcdb3932869","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e76974c0-ae8f-44ab-ab5a-3fcdb3932869","Architecture and Safety: Safe social housing for the inhabitants of the periphery of São Paulo","Fenten, Huub (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Mooij, H.A.F. (mentor); Schnater, F.R. (mentor); Mota, Nelson (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2023","In São Paulo, Brazil, the urbanization of workers without education or a steady income has caused a large demand for social housing, with 800,000 families forced to live in settlements and slums without a legal basis. At the same time, the crime rates of the past decades brought forth a standard of ‘enclavement’ of urban blocks, with fences protecting shared outdoor spaces. These add to the segregation of a city that already has immense inequality. Although many have written about creating a safe living environment with architecture in the Western world, applications in the global south are lagging behind. This thesis explores how architectural design can positively influence safety in the periphery of São Paulo, taking into account socioeconomic segregation, local building practices, and social equity. For this, a literature review, a comparative analysis of precedents, a contextual analysis, and research by design are used. The design is made for Parque Cocaía, a greenfield site with environmental restrictions on the outskirts of the city, in Grajaú. It shows how the design of building types that foster the creation of communities, public space that invites life into the streets, and dwelling types that allow watching over the public realm and shared spaces can all contribute to a safer living environment. The design combines lessons learned from Western theory, social housing precedents, and the local context and thereby offers an alternative to enclavement as a means to assure safe living. Future research and design can build on this to prevent further segregation of Brazilian society.","Global Housing; social housing; dwelling; architecture; São Paulo; Brazil; periphal urbanization; urban design; safety","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Global Housing","","-23.752255,-46.677053"
"uuid:1cc98af4-6670-479e-8b9d-09a103ab71d7","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:1cc98af4-6670-479e-8b9d-09a103ab71d7","The (In)-Between: Creating Careful Boundaries and Porous Thresholds Between Social Housing and the Grajaú Neighbourhood in São Paulo","Schreurs, Sanette (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Mota, Nelson (mentor); Mooij, H.A.F. (mentor); Schnater, F.R. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2023","Since the introduction of neoliberalism in the 1980s, housing has transformed from a social good to a market commodity, resulting in housing policies’ focus shifting from resilience to efficiency. The shift greatly affected the Global South, where an overwhelming amount of housing was, and still is, required (Syllabus Intro). Several initiatives aimed to counter the issue through approaches solely focused on resilience. These projects were, however, unable to produce the amount of housing needed. Subsequently, several housing experts recently argued that a trade-off between efficiency and resilience is required to challenge this global phenomenon.
The project investigates the balance between resilience and efficiency through a social housing development in São Paulo, Brazil’s largest city. Despite São Paulo not being a poor city, it has one of the world’s most inequitable distributions of wealth. One of the main symptoms of this inequality is a lack of sufficient housing. The project is in Grajau, one of the city’s periphery neighbourhoods. Heterogenous neighbourhoods, called favelas or irregular settlements, populate the district(Marques and Saraiva 2017, 21). Favelas often consist of dwellings that do not meet adequate housing standards according to Brazilian law. Still, these neighbourhoods provide an opportunity for impoverished families to have a house, presenting somewhat of a solution towards the Brazilian housing crisis.
The research concluded that Brazil’s large socio-economic gap and complicated political history are two of the primary catalyst for the country’s significant housing crisis. The Estatuto da Cidade (City Statute), developed after the fall of the dictatorship, acts as a legal framework to manage and improve the urban development of periphery neighbourhoods. The City Statute includes the Zones Especias de Interesse Social’ (ZEIS, Special Zones of Social Interest). ZEIS identifies areas where infrastructure and degraded properties can be improved, allocates space for public amenities and dedicates unused land for Social Interest Housing (HIS) and Low-Income Market Housing (HMP).
The central concern of the project is the lack of urban integration between Social Housing developments and their surrounding heterogeneous neighbourhoods (favelas and irregular settlements). A combination of fieldwork, theoretical research and comparative analysis, discussed throughout the report, was used to identify the problem. The project challenges the urban segregation between favelas and Social Housing through porous thresholds and careful boundaries. The approach is derived mainly from the work of German philosopher Walter Benjamin, Dutch architect Aldo van Eyck and Brazilian architect Hector Viglecca. The design applies porous thresholds and careful boundaries throughout all design scales, continuously considering the project’s socio-economic, managerial, and environmental impact.","boundaries; thresholds; Spatial segregation; Sao Paulo; social housing","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","",""
"uuid:9ec9ad5a-d060-4850-84b1-a0553e92a3c1","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:9ec9ad5a-d060-4850-84b1-a0553e92a3c1","Brutally Honest, on why should we save ugly buildings: Research and Design Project of adaptive reuse and socio-architectural rehabilitation of Atlas Tower in Liège, Belgium","Murzyn, Zuzanna (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Ronner, E.I. (mentor); Lafeber, J.W. (mentor); Stalker, S. (graduation committee); Reinders, L.G.A.J. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2023","Unappreciated by the public, and ambiguous with its history, Brutalism has its followers, among designers and architects yet it is still a stylistic outcast. La tour de Droixhe, the high-rise at hand, thus, is seen not only as heritage but also as a lonely giant towering over the city of Liège, Belgium. This brutalist social housing development presents itself as an example of many other similar cases across Europe where brutalist buildings are met with discontent from the public and with growing mismanagement, they often face a certain demolition, therefore this project explored both within design and programme why should we save ugly buildings and how to change their fate. Taking on the original message of brutalism as an ethical approach, the project brings in the possibilities of enhancing social cohesion in the case of high-rise housing. Answering the challenges that living off-the-ground creates through designing clusters within the tower working on the premise of cooperative living. Humanising brutalism and reclaiming its aesthetics as unique and worth building on and upon.","Brutalism; High-rise Building; Belgium; Liege; social housing; Preservation; reuse; Adaptive regeneration; urban architecture; tower; housing typology; co-housing; 1970s; concrete structure; reuse concrete","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Urbanism","","50.647064, 5.602899"
"uuid:66c203d4-c275-43e3-8ac2-37ff8a1838e6","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:66c203d4-c275-43e3-8ac2-37ff8a1838e6","Healthy Urban Neighbourhoods Within Green Infrastructures","Spapens, Maxime (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Verkuijlen, S.H. (mentor); Tomesen, P.L. (mentor); Jenkins, A.J. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2023","An important part of people and their wellbeing is their living environment. Because of the increase in population and buildings, urban areas suffer from densification and diminishing green environments. These urban environments have substantial risk of mental illness, such as depression and anxiety. Green environments and qualitative features of building have a positive impact on people and their mental health. Because of lacking space caused by the large number of existing buildings, it is important to look at the possibilities to facilitate these healthy living environments within the existing urban fabric.
As a testcase within the research paper strategies for decreasing depression/anxiety levels and -risks in the urban context of Boerhaavewijk (Haarlem) are investigated, with the focus on urban green infrastructures and the facilitation of passive and active care. This research gives a method of improving mental health in urban environments, by providing a system of internal and external interventions with a scoring on effectiveness, cost, amount of functions, passive or active care and implementation time, together with the reflection of users, designers, and planners.
In the design proposal the found strategies are implemented in the renovation and add-on of a post-war flat and its immediate environment in Boerhaavewijk (Haarlem), with the objective of making it more sustainable and facilitate for better mental health, by the implementation of green infrastructures and the facilitation of passive and active care to decrease the depression/anxiety levels and-risks of its users.
Today, the building construction sector in the European Union consumes 40% of primary materials, and the same percentage of primary energy, making it an exhaustive industry responsible for resource depletion. At the same time the Netherlands is in need of more affordable housing. Drastic change is needed to produce the necessary housing in a way that is consistent with planetary limits. Timber as a renewable construction material could be a solution. However, careful consideration of the entire timber system is needed in order to make building with timber not just another way to exploit natural resources. This graduation project proposes a possible solution by building social housing with locally sourced timber in the Netherlands.
This thesis ‘Growing Social Housing’ is part of a joint graduation project with Yael van Mengden (Msc Landscape Architecture). This interdisciplinary project proposes a new system from dynamic production forestry to social housing in the Netherlands.
position as the main indicators of sustainable investment. While ESG-earmarked funds have grown significantly in the last years, there is widespread concern about the real impact of ESG-funded projects and whether these are in fact bringing additional investment into key transitional activities such as the renovation of the social housing stock. This project poses two questions, first, How does ESG funding interlock with the renovation strategies of social housing providers? And second, How do institutional factors affect the uptake of ESG funding? To answer these questions, this project draws from semi-structured interviews with finance officers from housing providers across six European countries with large social housing stocks: Austria, Germany, The Netherlands, France, Sweden, and the UK. The main objective of this paper is to critically assess the contributions of ESG funding to the energy transition and contextualise it within traditional forms of private and public financing of social housing.","ESG; social housing; energy transition; green finance; sustainability","en","abstract","","","","","","","","","","","Urban Development Management","","",""
"uuid:16da62dc-724e-4429-a5dc-3491aaddb249","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:16da62dc-724e-4429-a5dc-3491aaddb249","Prison' Housing vs Housing' Prison: A comparative analysis of De Koepel and Oost III projects by Koolhaas/OMA in de 1980s","Martinez-Millana, Elena (TU Delft Building Knowledge; Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)","","2023","This article studies small housing following a very particular strategy. The doctoral thesis from which this article arises seeks to provide an answer to the following research question: How is it possible to explore the tensions and contradictions of domesticity? To do so, we propose to study the dwellings of those who have not had a family as a referent, and we consider other forms of the collective living of people who live alone, but within a community. Two study cases designed throughout the 1980s by one of the most influential architects of the last quarter of the 20th century, Rem Koolhaas / Office for Metropolitan Architecture, are placed in relation to each other, exploring unexpected connections. In this article, his proposal for the renovation of a 19th-century panopticon prison is analysed, together with another of his housing project in which the typological variety shows alternative units to the familiar. For various reasons, both can be considered paradigmatic projects. The first is one of only three pure panoptic prisons built in the Netherlands at the end of the 19th century, known as De Koepel (the dome), specifically the one located in the Dutch city of Arnhem, which is a National Monument. The proposal for the renovation of the entire prison complex was developed over almost a decade, between 1979 and 1988, and culminated in the specific proposal for the design of the interior of the cells. The second case is the housing blocks for the IJ-plein urban plan, located in a former harbour area on the banks of the IJ in Amsterdam North, a plan in which all the housing was social housing, which is unique in the Netherlands and unfeasible today. The plan was designed and built between 1980 and 1988, with the Koolhaas/OMA blocks, Oost III, being the last to be completed. Among the housing typologies, HAT units (Huisvesting Alleenstaanden en Tweepersoonshuishoudens), the dwellings for one or two persons, have a predominant presence, which contrasts with others such as community housing for the disabled.","domesticity; social housing; prisons; IJ-plein; De Koepel; HAT-unit; 1980s","en","conference paper","ARU","","","","","Funding The author of this research was awarded the Margarita Salas Postdoctoral Fellowship (Ministry of Universities, Government of Spain) funded by the European Union (Next Generation EU programme) for three years, the first two at the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) and the third at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) (2022-24).","","","","","Building Knowledge","","",""
"uuid:3eacf348-2d07-476d-965b-8363a5289fb2","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:3eacf348-2d07-476d-965b-8363a5289fb2","Three contradictions between ESG finance and social housing decarbonisation: A comparison of five European countries","Fernández Pérez, A. (TU Delft Urban Development Management); Haffner, M.E.A. (TU Delft Urban Development Management); Elsinga, M.G. (TU Delft Urban Development Management)","","2023","The regulation of financial markets according to Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) criteria has become a priority for the European Union (EU). Recent legislation, such as the EU Green Taxonomy, aims to identify sustainable investments enhancing transparency and accountability while steering private finance toward environmental objectives. The introduction of ESG criteria poses specific questions for Social Housing Organisations (SHOs), particularly as the decarbonisation of the housing stock is also incorporated into national legislation. This article contributes to the social housing finance literature by breaking ground on ESG, an area of intensive legislative activity currently re-shaping financial markets. The study draws from interviews with SHOs’ finance directors, banking officers, rating agencies and public officials to answer the question: How does the introduction of ESG legislation affect the financing of social housing decarbonisation? First, the results show that ESG legislation is broadening reporting responsibilities while producing only limited additional finance ultimately geared towards large and commercially oriented SHOs. Second, the expansion of energy-efficiency requirements is resulting in higher costs creating tensions with SHOs’ social mission of building homes at affordable rents. Third, the adoption of ESG financing is producing inequalities in access to capital across national financing systems and individual providers.","comparative policy; ESG; European policy; renovation; Social housing","en","journal article","","","","","","","","","","","Urban Development Management","","",""
"uuid:8398fb1f-35eb-47a2-a663-b89271c54fc3","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:8398fb1f-35eb-47a2-a663-b89271c54fc3","Energy poverty allevation by social housing providers: Investigating Targeted Approaches in France, England, and the Netherlands","Croon, T.M. (TU Delft Urban Development Management); Hoekstra, J.S.C.M. (TU Delft Urban Development Management); Dubois, U. (ISG International Business School)","","2023","","Energy Poverty; Fuel Poverty; Social Housing; Renovation; Rent Setting; Housing Allocation","en","abstract","","","","","","","","","","","Urban Development Management","","",""
"uuid:6dce5533-fe88-4a84-aa0f-3ebebbc5839b","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:6dce5533-fe88-4a84-aa0f-3ebebbc5839b","Addressing Energy Poverty in Social Housing Estates","Croon, T.M. (TU Delft Urban Development Management); Hoekstra, J.S.C.M. (TU Delft Urban Development Management); Dubois, Ute (ISG International Business School)","","2023","This report addresses energy poverty in social housing, proposing solutions to aid an inclusive energy transition. It highlights the disproportionate impact of rising prices on vulnerable tenants, suggesting short-term measures like energy advice and energy-saving kits, along with long-term strategies such as prioritising renovations for those in need and reforming housing allocation policies to combat the issue effectively.","Energy poverty; Fuel poverty; Social housing; Social policy; Policy targeting","en","report","European Federation for Living","","","","","","","","","","Urban Development Management","","",""
"uuid:f8ea5af8-fa2a-48d5-8995-abe4e7b29892","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f8ea5af8-fa2a-48d5-8995-abe4e7b29892","Home of Beirut: Social Housing in Beirut City Centre","Doğan, Ferhat (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Caso, O. (mentor); Mateljan, M. (graduation committee); van der Meel, H.L. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2022","This thesis focusses on social housing oppurtunities in the urban city centre of Beirut after the explosion of the Harbour of August 2020. The focus of the paper is aimed at the lower and middle class Beirutis and aimes to connect different fragments of the city centre.","Social Housing; Beirut; City center; Urban Gardening; Shared Living","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Complex Projects","",""
"uuid:dadfee6f-b7c6-4f42-87b8-dedaaab57cd2","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:dadfee6f-b7c6-4f42-87b8-dedaaab57cd2","Adequate Social Housing: Using system dynamics modelling to develop a policy strategy that increases the number of adequate rental properties in the Dutch social housing sector","Isenia Bustamante, Hillary (TU Delft Technology, Policy and Management)","van Daalen, C. (mentor); Boumeester, H.J.F.M. (mentor); Eskinasi, Martijn (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2022","Despite the fact that everyone has the right to adequate housing, this fundamental human right has become a critical manner in several European Union (EU) nations, especially in the Netherlands (OHCHR, 2009; Rosenfeld, 2015; European Parliament, 2020). Despite being the largest social sector in Europe, accounting for approximately 30% of the Dutch housing market, recent research suggests that housing associations are unable to properly handle their social responsibilities in the current environment in the Netherlands (Penders, 2020). First of all, recent changes in the housing market demonstrate that the demand for social housing has not only expanded but also diversified its target audience (Madsen & Ghekière, 2021). Recent studies indicate that aside from the poor and vulnerable, also the elderly, young adults (starters), and middle-income families, along with vulnerable and special groups are becoming increasingly interested in this housing aid (OECD, 2020; Madsen & Ghekière, 2021).
In order to meet the rising social housing demand, housing associations are expected to construct more than 25,000 new social houses each year until 2035, with the number of dwellings that must become more sustainable gradually increasing from 25,000 to over 60,000 (Penders, 2020; Madsen & Ghekière, 2021). According to Penders (2020), approximately €116 billion is required for all investments up to and including 2035, however, around €30 billion in social tasks (nearly 25% of the total amount) will not be accomplished since housing associations’ expenditures (interest, taxes, maintenance, and management) are rising faster than their income, namely rentals. In the Netherlands, the creation and management of social housing is the responsibility of social housing associations. However, the different actions that these housing associations can take in order to fulfil their social obligations depend mainly on the housing policies that the Dutch policymakers implement. As a result, it has recently come to light that a significant portion of the social housing stock in the Netherlands is unfit for habitation. One in five of all social rental dwellings in the Netherlands, which is estimated to be home to 312,500 households, are expected to be energy-poor, according to recent studies (P. Mulder et al., 2021; Aw, 2021). In addition, according to current Autoriteit woningcorporaties (Aw) data, the housing associations themselves provided about 80,000 social rental houses in (very) poor conditions (De Regt & Bunskoek, 2021).
Given that the Dutch social housing is currently struggling to meet its social obligations due to a paradox of rising demand and constrained financial means. More legislative actions will be required to alleviate the current housing crisis through the social housing market. Therefore, this study aims to answer the following research question: What policy strategy could Dutch policymakers put in place to assist social housing providers to ensure that there are enough adequate rental properties available to meet the rising housing demand?
In this study, this research question will be answered by means of a simulation modelling approach. It was decided to investigate the underlying mechanisms in the social sector in the Haaglanden urban region by conducting various analyses (including uncertainty analysis and policy analysis) using the system dynamics (SD) simulation model, the Dutch Social Housing Model, which was created during the execution of this study. Contrary to the conventional SD approach, this study is accomplished by combining the SD approach with the Exploratory Modeling and Analysis (EMA) methodology – which employs computer experiments to support decision-making under uncertainties. Given the dynamic complexity and deep uncertainty linked to the researched system, this method was performed to draw valid conclusions regarding the Dutch social housing market under deep uncertainty (Adams, 2011; Le Roux et al., 2011; Jonsson et al., 2021; Kwakkel & Pruyt, 2015).
First of all, the results show that up to and including 2050 there will be a housing shortage in both the social housing market (hereinafter referred to as SGEI) and the housing market for middle-low-income households (hereinafter referred to as Non SGEI) in the Haaglanden urban region. In particular, the shortage of SGEI homes will remain at around 60,000 homes from now until 2050, while the shortage of Non SGEI homes will continue to rise to about 20,000 homes. This can be explained by the difficult financial situation of the social housing associations, which cannot meet their social obligations. Despite the anticipated gradual increase in the social housing associations’ financial sources, this study shows that these corporations will only have enough financial resources to invest in the social housing market. Due to this, it is expected that the housing quality of SGEI houses will improve, while that of the Non SGEI houses is expected to deteriorate. The reason being, that if the housing association has sufficient financial resources for a particular house (in this case the SGEI houses), it can ensure that the homes in question can undergo maintenance, which improves the housing quality.
Given that the main purpose of this study is to identify policies that will enhance the system behaviour of the social housing market, it was decided to examine the following social housing regulations: Increase Average Rent, More Subsidy for Social Housing, More Planning Capacity for Social Housing, Lower Interest Rate, and Eliminate Landlord Levy. This is due to the fact that the policies Increase Average Rent, More Subsidy for Social Housing, and Eliminate Landlord Levy all improve the cash flow of social housing associations, with Eliminate Landlord Levy lowering the expenditures while the other two policies increase the income of the social housing associations. The expectation is that improved income flow will put social housing businesses in a stronger financial position, allowing them to make more investments to address the housing shortage and quality. Furthermore, More Planning Capacity for Social Housing guarantees more land at the disposal of housing associations compared to the current situation for the construction of new social housing to ensure that the growing housing demand will be met by the housing supply.
It is advised to use a combination of these policies to address the issues with the social housing system because no single of these policies can effectively address both the housing scarcity and the poor housing quality of both housing markets. Based on the results, it can be concluded that the combination of the following policies should be used in Dutch social housing: (1) More Planning Capacity for Social Housing, (2) More Subsidy for Social Housing, and (3) Eliminate Landlord Levy. However, it is advised to ascertain the value of the most influential uncertain parameters prior to the selection of the policy strategy because the majority of the KPIs, with the exception of the housing shortage for middle-low income households, are behaviorally sensitive to the uncertain parameters investigated in this study. Moreover, it is challenging to assess the robustness of the investigated policies because of the significant overlap between the findings of the several policies reviewed by the robustness study. The efficiency and robustness of the various policies mentioned in this study and their combination should therefore be thoroughly examined using the data that have been gathered of the most influential uncertain parameters. This information allows for the most precise mapping of the researched system’s behaviour during the application of the policy interventions. Policymakers are then able to decide on a course of action that is supported by empirical facts as a result. Ultimately, it is recommended that the other actors also be included in the policymaker’s selection procedure, as they may have differing opinions about the different policy candidates. The many perspectives that the actors involved have regarding the social housing system must therefore be thoroughly researched.","Adequate Housing; Social Housing; Housing Policy; System Dynamics","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Engineering and Policy Analysis","",""
"uuid:c3f9fd6b-6536-4bc5-acab-ff03a05246bc","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:c3f9fd6b-6536-4bc5-acab-ff03a05246bc","A Participatory Design Game for Social Housing Configuration in the Context of Manaus, in Brazil","Espinosa, Vasilka (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Nourian, Pirouz (mentor); de Andrade, Bruno (graduation committee); Azadi, S. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2022","The emic structure of space heavily depends on the social, cultural, and economic context (Hillier, 1989). Yet, many social housing projects disregard this crucial aspect by standardizing the configuration of space (Sanoff, 2000). To be able to avoid the standardization of configuration and benefit from the cost-efficiency of mass production (Pine, 1993, Tseng, 2007), we propose a serious game that utilizes participatory design and gamification to facilitate co-creation and enable people to re-enforce their social and cultural preferences in the configuration of the spaces while benefiting from the economic viability of a mass-produced kit-of-parts. The proposed construction game is a mix of board game with Lego pieces. Each Lego piece have different possible dimension depending on the function which is being represented. The gameboard represents the plot on which the housing will be implemented. During the Planning phase of the game the players will use those components to generate a draft configuration that translates their preferences and requirements. Later in the Configuration stage, the game mechanisms are introduced to engage the players to communicate and discuss their ideas, make trades and commitments between them. The proposed configuration comprises fully modular pieces, so it could be easily manufactured and replicated. A test case base is conducted to further analyse on how effective the game has been in facilitating the participation in housing configuration, without the obstacle of technical knowledge of the architectural design and construction.","Participatory Design; Serious Game; mass customization; Modularity; Social Housing","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Building Technology","","-2.968179210482621, -59.998738943610256"
"uuid:6f30460c-7aa4-4653-bb6a-d11b4466ce20","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:6f30460c-7aa4-4653-bb6a-d11b4466ce20","Resilience inbetween the plasticscape: Energy and resource efficient social housing for migrant workers in Almeria, Spain","Gómez Ceelen, Pablo (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Smit, M.J. (mentor); Tomesen, P.L. (mentor); van den Ham, E.R. (mentor); van der Heijden, H.M.H. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2022","Almeria is a geographical point of arrival and passage of African migrants on their migratory route to Europe. The region is home to thousands of migrants seeking work in the agricultural sector. The lack of affordable housing for these collective has led to the creation of several informal settlements around agricultural areas.
This project is a proposal for social housing as an affordable housing offer for migrants, focusing on reducing the carbon footprint of buildings. For this, the design focuses on climate adaptation with low tech strategies and the implementation of materials from the context.
As opposed to the dependence on mechanical installations for acclimatisation, the project is inspired by the vernacular architecture of the area to adapt to the arid desert climate of Almeria. As construction material, compressed earth blocks are proposed, extracted in areas with microplastic contamination, in order to reduce the impact of agricultural activity on the environment.
The study analyzes the possible approach of renovation and adaptive reuse of the existing, untapped, residential buildings in order to meet the current climate regulations and future occupants’ needs. A literature review examines three main domains separately: zero-energy design, circularity and collective housing. A case study analysis of alternative collective housing models in particular monitors the porosity of this plan and its ability to be combined with zero-energy and circular principles. This research offers the opportunity to recognize possible methodologies that can then be applied on a specific case study.
Research is consolidated in the case of the refugee settlement complex of Alexandra’s Avenue (1933-36), in the city of Athens, and seeks to propose a number of recommendations for its renovation, energy upgrade, redevelopment and reuse. The fact that the research refers to listed buildings, constitutes the biggest limitation, in terms of design decisions. The case study it-self, clearly depicts the afore-mentioned issues in the Athenian context, and alongside includes building, social, historic and other characteristics that compose an ideal example for an energy efficient, user-oriented, adaptive reuse.
A step-by-step approach is adopted in order to develop (re)design methodologies for the energy transition and circular adaptation of the case study. In addition, a possible network of interactions between the involved stakeholders is proposed so as to create a holistic and functional business model. Ultimately, the thesis proposes an inclusive and integrated framework for the renovation of the existing, old, heritage, building stock, driven by zero-energy and circular principles, for the less-favored, towards a new typology of social and collective housing. The development of this framework is based on facts and data that can make it potentially applicable to similar cases elsewhere.
Further research on the topic would help facilitate the transition to integrated frameworks of renovation processes.","adaptive reuse; social housing; Residential buildings; listed; heritage; Collective housing; zero energy design; Circularity; circular renovation; operational plan","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Building Technology","","37.988863,23.7534108"
"uuid:5640329b-1eff-4a54-b926-ba06f6e1c825","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:5640329b-1eff-4a54-b926-ba06f6e1c825","Capturing Wishes: Translating personal housing requirements into affordable housing for young adolescents in Rotterdam Zuid","Buiter, Anna (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Vink, Jacques (mentor); van Dorst, M.J. (graduation committee); Fokkinga, J.D. (graduation committee); Meijer, A. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2022","In this paper, design principles for a co-housing project focused at young adults (18-27 years old) wishing to live in the Tarwewijk in Rotterdam Zuid are being proposed. These principles are based on literary research, reference projects, fieldwork and workshops held for students familiar with the design location. Topics that are touched upon are affordability, co-housing principles and the living wishes of young adults wishing to live in Rotterdam Zuid. While the target group did not perfectly fit the proposed target group, results were interpreted as if they were. The most important findings through different methods of research, among others, include that different types of housing should be realised, the building should contain several shared facilities in rooms which have a flexible floorplan, the neighbourhood should be involved in shared spaces, housing units should be designed as small and with as little walls as possible and that bathrooms and bedrooms should always be private. These results were combined into a design brief specifically created for the Tarwewijk in Rotterdam Zuid, yet the basic principles can be implemented in other affordable co-housing projects as well.","Co-housing; Affordability; Architecture; Low income households; social housing","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","De Steiger",""
"uuid:6f65e6dc-f33f-4a93-a357-453f904f3b43","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:6f65e6dc-f33f-4a93-a357-453f904f3b43","The Housing Rehabilitation of the 1922 Asia Minor refugees in Athens and Piraeus","Klimi, Myrto (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Lee, Rachel (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2022","The fragmented urban landscape of the metropolitan area of Athen and Piraeus with its local specificities is strongly related to demographic flows. The arrival of more than 220.000 refugees in the metropolitan area of Athens and Piraeus after the Asia Minor Catastrophe and the population exchange that followed the Treaty of Lausanne posed the great challenge of refugee rehabilitation since the population of the area almost doubled in a period of limited financial resources due to the preceding two Balkan Wars and the First World War. This led to a rapid expansion of the city, signified the beginning of the history of social housing in modern Greece, and contributed to the acceleration of the procedures for planning legislation in Athens.
46 refugee settlements resulted from the imperative need to house this population. Housing units ranging from unauthorized self-housing and almost slums to prefabricated wooden parapets, to single-family buildings, to organized apartment buildings influenced by the modernist movement, emerged. Nowadays, these morphological and typological forms have survived and constitute a considerable part of the city.
To synthetically provide information, show relations between the different forms of housing rehabilitation, and answer the question of how the refugee housing rehabilitation in Athens and Piraeus was realized and how it evolved historically this paper will analyze the urban footprint of these settlements by examining plans, maps, photographs, and through textual secondary sources, the criteria and policies that shaped them, giving an overview of the extent and influence of these areas to the contemporary image of the city. The focus will be sharpened on the architectural scale, by examining housing typologies, including self-housing and social housing, through archival material and photography. The housing typologies, which emerged will be divided into categories and analyzed based on one representative example for each of them. These will be illustrated with consideration of the actors and policies involved in the creation of the housing, the location and organization of the settlements, within which the typologies are to be found, their architectural characteristics, their transformation throughout history, and the situation encountered today.
The thesis will shed light on the origins, historic development, and transformation of these settlements throughout their 100-year long history and argue on the arising topics, mainly the involvement of the state in contrast to the lezzes faire, the influence of the settlements on the city’s urban structure, the architectural characteristics of the housing, the subsequent decline of the social housing sector in the city and the notion of sociability and neighborhood ties. The qualities and faults of these spaces and the policies that created them will be assessed. The thesis will argue for the significance of these parts of the urban fabric for the collective historic memory and their preservation and adaptation, as well as an interpretation of their qualities as a countermodel to prevailing housing developments.","Social Housing; refugee housing; Greece; Athens; urban planning; architecture; arbitrary housing; housing typology","en","student report","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","AR2A011",""
"uuid:686d73bd-33dd-42fe-807e-263ccc39ba10","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:686d73bd-33dd-42fe-807e-263ccc39ba10","From Streets-in-the-Sky to a Castle in the Air: Development and Decline of a Concept (1952-1980s)","Wong, Stephanie (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft History & Complexity)","Novas, María (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2022","After World War II, various architectural theories were proposed for urban development in order to tackle the societal issues and housing issues arising from the post-war trauma. ‘Streets-in-the-sky’, proposed by the English architects Alison and Peter Smithson in 1952, was one of the concepts that emerged in the post-war era and advocated the core values of human association and identity in the city. The Smithsons conceived the concept as a solution to the lack of public space on ground level due to the proliferation of automobiles, envisaging a vibrant uplifted public life. Hence, the notion gained critical acclaim in the early 1960s since it was also a response to the rigid urban planning of CIAM, prioritized community as a critical fragment in design and no long treated human as functioning machines. Nevertheless, the notion received increasingly negative feedback as more housing following this concept was built and gradually became viewed as a castle in the air. Scholars and the public no longer perceived the idea as a feasible design solution for the society. This thesis will deconstruct the concept through historical and socio-political lenses using three reference projects: Golden Lane Competition, Park Hill Estate and Robin Hood Gardens. The thesis investigates also the external and internal forces that turned ‘streets-in-the-sky’ into a castle in the air. The paper would be divided into three parts to understand the development and decline of the notion. What were the driving forces that fostered the formulation of ‘streets-in-the-sky’? How did architects implement this architectural theory into practical usage? What were the factors that led to negative public perception of the notion? Although the original ideas were not able to materialize as perfectly as expected in the 1960s, the urban values and historical values are inherited and engender an immense impact to later city development as vertical connection cores and elevated walkways re-appeared in metropolises in the recent decades.","AR2A011; streets-in-the-sky; Alison and Peter Smithson; social housing; uplifted public life; human association; identity","en","student report","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","AR2A011",""
"uuid:737fc7f3-ef15-455a-9bac-7873addae185","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:737fc7f3-ef15-455a-9bac-7873addae185","Implementation of a new homeownership program in Jakarta: The case of zero down-payment housing program","Pritha Hayuningtyas, Pritha (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft Management in the Built Environment)","van Bortel, G.A. (mentor); Geurts, E.H.M. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2022","Governments worldwide deal with the question of how to elevate their low-income household (LIH) into a higher standard of living. The main view of scholars on housing is that homeownership usually is the first step into improving the lives of people with a low income. The Province of Jakarta struggled with the same question. To address the housing challenge in Jakarta, they created the Zero Down-Payment Housing Program (ZDPHP) in 2017. This program's main purpose is to provide financing facilities to meet the basic need for adequate housing, targeting the LIH. However, the adaptation of this program has been slow, begging the question of what could be done to attract more beneficiaries. This article is intended to help improve the ZDPHP in Jakarta and give a perspective for other places thinking about implementing the same program. It explores the current eligibility criteria from the perspective of two out of five elements of the ""5 As of Adequate Housing"", Affordability and Accessibility, to understand the underlying housing challenge. Indicators of those two elements were collected from the data associated with the project. These data sources were supported and further explained using empirical data from policies analysis, interviews, FGDs, surveys and other existing databases. The most important findings were found as follows. Firstly, the best proportion of housing expenses to household income is to look at the actual comparison between household income and what a household pays for housing and transportation in its respective city. Secondly, to further strengthen the housing planning in Jakarta, an education program should be enforced alongside the ZDPHP. Lastly, with the recent launch of regulation regarding government land use permits, it is hoped that this will be a key solution to overcome land limitations and reduce house prices to become more accessible and affordable.","Social Housing; Zero down payment; Adequate Housing; Affordability; Accessibility; Low income households; Subsidy program","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Management in the Built Environment","","-6.2393615506780815, 106.94261248438768"
"uuid:f6d982c2-681b-414e-8d7f-cb06248051af","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f6d982c2-681b-414e-8d7f-cb06248051af","Adaptability and innovation. The Dutch experience in the public promotion of mass housing neighbourhoods: 1945-1985","Navas Carrillo, D.; Spoormans, L.G.K. (TU Delft Heritage & Design); Zijlstra, H. (TU Delft Heritage & Design); Pérez-Cano, Teresa (University of Seville)","Garcia, Álvaro Pérez (editor); Corbacho Valencia, Juan Manuel (editor); Selfa Sastre, Moisés (editor)","2022","This paper seeks to approach the context –social, economic and political– that conditioned themassive housing construction in the Netherlands after World War II. For this purpose, it has beennecessary to build a general framework about the construction of public housing in the second halfof the twentieth century, through the analysis of approved urban planning and housing legislationand the identification of the organisations responsible for public housing construction in these years.As the central methodology, the research has required an extensive search of literature andreferences to articulate the relationship between the knowledge previously generated. For thispurpose, in addition to research publications, professional papers or legislative documents, it hasbeen necessary to consult to experts, researchers or professionals as part of a research stay at theDelft University of Technology.Compared to other European contexts, the Dutch housing policy has two differentialcharacteristics that should be highlighted. Firstly, the long history and massive production of publicrental housing promoted by housing corporations. Secondly, a lower legislative output that favoursgreater flexibility, but also agility and adaptability. In this respect, the new regulations that cameinto force in 1965 made it possible to divide the time frame analysed into two periods.The first of these, known as Reconstruction Period, is characterised by a more significant rolefor the Government in solving the housing problem through the Central Housing Directorate of theMinistry of Reconstruction and Housing. The priority was to develop measures to alleviate thehousing shortage. The annual housing construction programs were accompanied by additionalfinancial aid to promote residential production, as well as measures to streamline the design andconstruction processes of housing.The second one introduces a third specific feature of Dutch housing production: innovation.According to the results of this work, this can be exemplified in two directions. From thetypological point of view, the Experimental Housing Programme is promoted, which favours theconstruction of experimental residential projects in its functional programme and its constructiveresolution. From the geographical distribution of public housing, there is also a significant change,focussing on cities of intermediate scale, to curb the excessive growth of the large Dutch cities ofthe Randstad.","mass housing; Public policy; residential buildings; social housing; twentieth century heritage","en","book chapter","Tirant lo Blanch","","","","","Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.","","2022-10-01","","","Heritage & Design","","",""
"uuid:057a82f4-df7b-4d5c-9493-2c254a59d001","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:057a82f4-df7b-4d5c-9493-2c254a59d001","How Can Digital Technologies Support the Circular Transition of Social Housing Organizations? Empirical Evidence from Two Cases","Çetin, Sultan (TU Delft Real Estate Management); Straub, A. (TU Delft Design & Construction Management); Gruis, V.H. (TU Delft Real Estate Management)","","2022","The world is facing an alarming housing crisis. The challenge for the construction industry is to find sustainable ways to meet this growing housing demand. The concept of Circular Economy could be an alternative approach as it aims to regenerate, narrow, slow, and close resources loops. Digital technologies are seen as enablers to implementing these looping strategies through their capabilities for managing information and supporting collaboration and new business model creation. In the built environment, many digital innovations have emerged that support the circular transition of the industry at various spatial scales. However, these innovations mainly focus on nano, micro, and macro scales and lack perspectives on the meso level (real estate portfolio). This research aims to understand how digital technologies can support circular strategies at the meso level by collecting empirical evidence from the European social housing organizations actively experimenting with circular strategies. We conducted a multiple-case study method and chose two cases from the UK and Belgium. We collected data through desk research and online group interviews. Our results indicate that housing organizations adopt a wide range of circular strategies for managing their housing portfolio. The support of digital technologies to perform the circularity is low. Our findings suggest five potentially enabling digital technologies at the meso level supporting the housing sector towards circularity: circular asset management tools, digital building logbooks, material passports, BIM, and collaboration tools.","circular economy; built environment; social housing; digital technology; case study; Meso scale","en","conference paper","Eindhoven University of Technology","","","","","Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.","","2022-09-09","","","Real Estate Management","","",""
"uuid:4cfb99c5-1374-42a4-b6d7-4a52d66ad734","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:4cfb99c5-1374-42a4-b6d7-4a52d66ad734","Beyond Conditionality: Community Placemaking in Taiwanese Social Housing Management","Yu, Hsinko Cinco (TU Delft Spatial Planning and Strategy); Lin, Tsai-Hung (Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam); Dabrowski, M.M. (TU Delft Spatial Planning and Strategy)","","2022","Taiwan’s social housing has concentrated on the physical provision of housing and pays little attention to questions of social inclusion in neighbourhoods. However, placemaking practices in other countries have triggered a flurry of experimentation in social housing in Taipei. We evaluate the performance of placemaking efforts aimed at enhancing tenant participation in social housing management. The rapid and selective transfer of social housing policy approaches from the West has led to problems in implementation and management. However, we found that community placemaking involving planners as facilitators fostering partnerships significantly enhances tenant participation in the provision and management of social housing.","Policy mobility; placemaking; conditionality; social housing management; tenant participation","en","journal article","","","","","","","","","","","Spatial Planning and Strategy","","",""
"uuid:8ae508b6-a702-449d-a7c8-87090267de37","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:8ae508b6-a702-449d-a7c8-87090267de37","On the (Non)Institutional Disclosure of Urban Commons: Evidence, Practices and Challenges From the Netherlands and Belgium","Calzati, S. (TU Delft Urban Data Science); Santos, Francisco; Casarola, Giulia","","2022","The 2008 economic crisis has opened the door to new strategies for managing urban resources. In fact, the interest in urban commons (UC) has (re)surfaced both within and outside academia. While literature accounting for existing experiences is growing; UC as a practice begs for further systematization concerning the needed negotiation between institutional recognition and informal self-organization. This is particularly true for temporary urbanism, a strategy for the social repurposing of temporarily unused buildings, whose precarious nature has been deemed to represent just a fixing to the neoliberal logic. In this regard, a non-institutional perspective can help shed light on citymaking as a composite practice in which both institutional and non-institutional actors not only coexist but presuppose each other. In this paper, we explore this issue by focusing on two non-profit organizations working in the Rotterdam and Brussels's housing market: Stad in de Maak and Communa. Through in-depth interviews with the founders and core members of these organizations, as well as with participants to their projects, we show how SidM and Communa operate as intermediaries in the housing sector, filling the gaps left by the market and public actors. Most importantly, our research questions the extent to which the enacting of commoning practices by these organizations can become a pillar of citymaking, configuring an iterative disclosure and (collective) reclosure of urban resources. Evidence shows that, while enacting temporary urbanism differently, both organizations strive for social cooperative ownership of spaces for consolidating their presence in the cities.","urban commons; temporary urbanism; non-institutional actors; social housing; real estate market; Rotterdam; Brussels","en","journal article","","","","","","","","","","","Urban Data Science","","",""
"uuid:84b31514-fefb-40f4-989e-be8148c7d183","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:84b31514-fefb-40f4-989e-be8148c7d183","“Unexpected” domesticity: Housing design of OMA’s IJ-plein masterplan project in Amsterdam","Martinez-Millana, Elena (TU Delft Space & Type; Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)","","2022","This article focuses on the OMA’s IJ-plein master plan located on a former shipping wharf in Amsterdam North (1980-1988). Particularly in the domesticity of the different dwellings, which were designed by six other offices, including the one by Koolhaas, and were 100% for social housing. This project is considered one of the turning points of what finally culminated in the 1990s’ Super Dutch. Several authors have studied this project, particularly Bernard Leupen, author of the book “IJ-Plein. Een speurotcht naar niewusw compositiorische mideelen” [IJ-Plein. A search for new compositional idea] (010, 1989). However, as Leupen himself pointed out, his study lacks specific issues, such as evaluating dwellings and their use. It was published immediately after the project ended. More recently, other authors have studied the project, such as Christophe Van Gerrewey in “A Weissenhofsiedlung for Amsterdam” (Anyone, 2018) or Lara Schrijver in “Stubborn Modernity, IJ-plein Amsterdam” (OASE, 2015). While these are significant contributions, they do not delve into the design of the dwellings, developing questions related to commissioning, process, or precedents. This study offers a new analysis of the project with an emphasis on housing design: not only on their novel interpretation of modern tradition at the time of their conception, but on the inherent and unexpected domesticity of their typological proposals today.","IJ-plein; domesticity; social housing; HAT-unit; Dutch modernism; 1980’s","en","conference paper","","","","","","","","","","","Space & Type","","",""
"uuid:edb712ac-c5bf-4b88-bcdd-cc5a093ba6c0","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:edb712ac-c5bf-4b88-bcdd-cc5a093ba6c0","The Garden-Fresh City: Rethinking garden cities: designing a socially and environmentally sustainable future","Maassen, Denise (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Smit, M.J. (mentor); Tomesen, P.L. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2021","Many neighbourhoods that comprise the Western Garden Cities of Amsterdam are struggling with a low liveability. Their spacious layout however, offers great potential for densification within the city borders. My project, the Garden-Fresh City, shows an approach that both tackles issues with liveability and fulfills this densification potential through reinventing the Garden City concept. With a focus on the transition zone between public and private space, the Garden-Fresh City redefines the relationship between the community and its gardens.","Liveability; Transition Zone; Garden city; Social housing","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","",""
"uuid:4503ca9e-e3fc-48f6-b40a-2eede52faed3","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:4503ca9e-e3fc-48f6-b40a-2eede52faed3","Mass Timber Social Housing: Defining barriers and developing strategies to enable mass timber construction for housing associations","van Amelsfort, Thijs (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Heintz, John L. (mentor); de Jong, P. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2021","There is a growing need for social housing in the Netherlands, especially in urban areas. The construction industry faces the difficult task of quickly responding to this demand while also reducing the embodied carbon emissions of new buildings. A proposed solution to these tasks is constructing mass timber buildings, leading to cheaper buildings and faster construction times while also reducing embodied carbon emissions compared to traditional buildings (Amiri et al., 2020). Due to its high strength and low weight, research finds that mass timber is suitable for reinforced concrete replacement. In doing so, a reduction of 2,4 Million Tons of C02 Equivalent annually can be established.
However, mass timber construction faces barriers—especially when addressing social housing associations due to their strong focus on affordability and risk reduction. Since the construction of social ‘carbon neutral’ housing is a major societal and environmental challenge, this research aims to define the barriers and develop strategies for overcoming these barriers to enable mass timber construction. For this purpose, the central research question is as follows: “What are the barriers for the construction of modular mass timber social housing, and what might be strategies for overcoming them?
Since this question is explorative, a qualitative research approach is used with the double design method. In the first diamond, the barriers are discovered and defined. In the second diamond, the strategies for overcoming these barriers are developed. Expectations are that the demand for mass timber buildings is above average in urban areas where a scarcity of land occurs, and municipalities have non-statutory supplementary ambitions regarding sustainability. Therefore, this research focuses on housing associations operating in urban areas. The barriers are identified by analyzing data obtained through a series of consultations with experts and eight semi-structured interviews with social housing associations. Ten barriers resulted from these interviews, which were classified into four categories.
The first category consists of social, cultural, and organizational barriers in adopting mass timber construction. Housing associations experience unclarity about circular decisions, show risk-averse behavior, and are having difficulties changing. The second category contains sectorial barriers. These include a sectoral knowledge deficiency, strategic alliances with the traditional industry, and the unique project-based approach that forms a barrier for modular construction since it limits the degree of repeatability and standardization. The third category are technical barriers. They consist of the perception among housing associations that modular construction results in uniformity, which is further obstructed by different programs of requirements.
The strategies for overcoming these barriers are based upon insights from an online expert panel meeting. The panel consisted of two representatives of mass timber construction companies, an architect, and an expert on bio-based construction materials. There was consensus among the experts about four strategies, of which the most important is to change the conditions for mass timber. This can be done with long- and short-term knowledge increase. Other strategies include the role of the municipalities and universities. However, to enable mass timber construction structurally, the construction costs must be lowered. The industrialization of modular construction could do so. Another way is letting social housing associations review their decision-making process from cost-based to value- based. This can be done by looking at total expenditure rather than building costs. The third strategy lets suppliers create a (open) building system based on standard floorplans with the flexibility for fitting custom facades. An open building system creates the opportunity for an infill industry to arise and allows a shift from a traditional design process towards product thinking. The fourth strategy is to safeguard the future value of components by using materials with common dimensions, which contributes to a total cost of ownership approach. Changing the responsibility of a product’s maintenance incentives suppliers to use durable and remountable materials, allowing circular business models.
This research answers the central question by presenting the ten barriers and four strategies. In doing so, this research provides implications for academia by combining modularity, mass timber, and social housing. It has delivered a well-ordered list of barriers that provides implications for practice. However, the presented strategies for overcoming these barriers do not guarantee the uptake of modular mass timber construction. Since this is a relatively new topic in the Netherlands, it also requires time to be adopted and deployed in the market. A TCO approach looks most promising to enable modular mass timber construction. Future research should find how to best incorporate this within a traditional- orientated construction value chain.","Mass Timber; Social housing; Affordable Housing; Modular construction; Barriers; Strategies","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Management in the Built Environment","",""
"uuid:58005df5-0dd5-4b33-aa71-1c101de11e25","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:58005df5-0dd5-4b33-aa71-1c101de11e25","Affordable housing in an urban commons: The Community Land Trust as an alternative model for housing development in Rotterdam","Wenders, Stijn (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft Urbanism)","Romein, A. (mentor); Kleinhans, R.J. (graduation committee); Oxenaar, A.J. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2021","Trends of neoliberalisation and globalisation have led to the financialisation of housing on a global scale. This has led to the increasing deployment of state-led gentrification as a strategy for urban development, as cities aim to strengthen their position as nodes in the global economy. In the Netherlands, these trends have led to the marginalisation of social housing. As the city of Rotterdam develops ambitious plans to restructure its old city harbours into dense mixed-use districts, residents of the adjoining neighbourhood Tweebos protest the forced demolition of their social housing units in the midst of a national housing crisis. These dwellings have to make way in favour of new privately owned homes for middle-income residents as part of the municipality’s plans for city-wide socio-economic diversification.
This thesis proposes an alternative development strategy for Tweebos based in the right to the city. By establishing a Community Land Trust in Tweebos, residents will be able to regain control over the development of their neighbourhood. The CLT holds the land in perpetuity, controlling rents and resale prices democratically through the neighbourhood and thus ensuring affordability. The CLT provides Tweebos residents an instrument to elevate the use value of urban space above its exchange value, a platform to participate in the production of urban space and a mechanism to fund those developments. This thesis argues that by doing so, the CLT protects the urban commons and institutionalises the right to the city. The principles of the CLT can thus help strengthen the right to the city in the Dutch system of housing development, and can provide a starting point for a stronger public housing sector in the Netherlands.","community land trust; gentrification; right to the city; urban commons; rotterdam; tweebos; social housing","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Complex Cities","","51.900167,4.507397"
"uuid:472dc257-24ae-494d-af1d-d6e9fc018c31","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:472dc257-24ae-494d-af1d-d6e9fc018c31","Revitalizing Riverbank Informal Settlements: Urban Integration & Revitalization of the Bulbula River","van Eijs, Maarten (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Mota, Nelson (mentor); Schnater, F.R. (graduation committee); Mooij, H.A.F. (graduation committee); Louw, E. (graduation committee); Grossman, Vanessa (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2021","This graduation booklet shows the work that is done during the ‘Global Housing Graduation Studio: Addis Ababa Living Lab’. The goal of this project was to research and design housing solutions to improve the livelihood of Addis Ababa’s urban dwellers. Currently, Addis Ababa is facing the problems which are caused by the ongoing rapid urbanization. One of these problems, and the focus of my graduation project, is the degradation of the rivers and riverbanks. This project proposes a rehabilitation of the riverbank informal settlements of Addis Ababa, as well as implements a strategy to increase the density of the city which also takes into account the existing inhabitants of these riverbanks and offers them a dwelling type that fits their traditional way of life.","Social Housing; Addis Ababa; Resilience; Urban Settlements; Informal Housing","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","Addis Ababa Living Lab: Creating Resilient Dwelling Clusters for Urban Resettlement",""
"uuid:e220b02d-220c-4b08-b7c8-fe18f9eb755e","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e220b02d-220c-4b08-b7c8-fe18f9eb755e","Common Ground: Vernacular Livelihoods and Rural Urban MIgration","Grenestedt, Anna (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Mota, Nelson (mentor); Schnater, F.R. (graduation committee); Mooij, H.A.F. (graduation committee); Grossman, Vanessa (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2021","The prevailing matter of need for affordable housing in the time of rapid urbanisation and additionally, during the peak of the Anthropocene era, calls for new social, economic and environmental solutions to accommodate the rural-urban migration in Addis Ababa. As the city boundary of Addis Ababa is constantly expanding in the phase of its urbanisation, the farmland is compromised and taken over by new building developments. As a result, the local farmers are losing their livelihoods and are forced to move further out of the city. On the other hand, are the people residing in, often informal, neighbourhoods in the central parts being re-located to the condominium schemes in the outskirts of the city, which often results in interruptions and loss of social contexts and connections. In the time of a global extensive urbanisation and rapid rural-urban migration both around the world and within Ethiopia, the question is if we can re-connect people to their place and engage people with their environment as well as create space for traditional livelihoods and rural practices to take place in an urban environment.","Addis Ababa Living Lab; Social housing; Commoning; Permaculture; Rural-Urban Migration; Ethiopia; Addis Ababa; Global Housing Studio","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","","","8.946937, 38.801779"
"uuid:7c9e5281-165f-4329-a3c1-04a4852b82a2","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:7c9e5281-165f-4329-a3c1-04a4852b82a2","New Human Nature: A Plea for the Coherency of the DiverCity","Tilman, Anneloes (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Pottgiesser, U. (mentor); Warries, G.Y. (mentor); Spoormans, L.G.K. (graduation committee); Wandl, A. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2021","The project aims to answer the following research question: How can the Dutch 80’s neighbourhood be densified in terms of housing and nature while enhancing and preserving in- and extrinsic values (if present) by taking the neighbourhood Hoptille as case study? Hoptille (1980) is a neighbourhood in Amsterdam Zuid-Oost and was a reaction against the Bijlmer high-rise flats. The area consists of a mid-rise, 300 meter long building, several low-rise row housing and two large parking garages. After 40 years is it well over due for a renovation/transformation. Hoptille was research through stakeholder research, risk assessments, and several analyses. This research was the base for the program and goals for the neighbourhood. The project itself takes the international and the national context to address the local situation. This is done through a threefold approach to explore the many opportunities within the area, low intensity renovation, high intensity transformation, and demolish-new build. During the design process, the emphasise was laid on sustainable development, particularly the enhancement of biodiversity.","Amsterdam Zuid-Oost; biodiversity; Social housing; New Heritage","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","","","52.309488, 4.954372"
"uuid:746a805c-d68f-4bcc-b4dc-0ce61b8a6b7d","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:746a805c-d68f-4bcc-b4dc-0ce61b8a6b7d","Life after fences: Negotiating low-income gated communities in Bogotá","Ruiz Carvajal, Federico (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","de Carvalho Filho, L.M. (mentor); Hausleitner, B. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2021","Low-income gated communities have become increasingly popular in Bogotá, despite the contradiction that lies at their core: that life in a self-sufficient and closed type of housing is an unsustainable endeavour for a population that cannot pay for a privatised life. To navigate through this paradox, residents constantly negotiate those regulations that keep communities closed (which they cherish as source of order and tranquillity) with their own experience and needs. This negotiation derives into actions of “overflow” that challenge the planned space and, under current conditions, are destined to remain unrecognised by formal institutions.
This research explores the ways in which these actions can be translated into and enhanced through a spatial and regulatory “framework for negotiation.” The goal is to create the conditions for the growth of open living environments through actions that prioritize horizontal interaction and spatial flexibility. In this scenario, residents become the main agents of production of social, political, and economic complexity of their neighbourhoods.","gated communities; Bogota; social housing; negotiation","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","","","4.625421188680341, -74.20951521487935"
"uuid:9bfe74da-436e-4cde-a04a-8ff7d027b659","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:9bfe74da-436e-4cde-a04a-8ff7d027b659","Creating a city for a new generation of integration: In which young people with migration background have a sense of belonging","Alkateb, Alice (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Kupers, T.W. (mentor); Adema, F. (graduation committee); van der Putt, P.S. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2021","The Netherlands experienced a large influx of refugees over the past years, which peaked in 2015. Many of these refugees have recently had their temporary residency extended into a permanent residency. In spite of this, there is a disproportionately high percentage of unemployment among refugees and many experience a lack of social and academic integration. As a result, a large percentage of refugees are still dependent on governmental financial aid, and the socioeconomic status of refugees is more likely to be lower than the average socioeconomic status in the Netherlands.
Although refugee integration is a widely studied sociological topic, no effort has been made to apply the findings of such studies to the context of architecture. The goal of the present study was to consider research findings on factors and domains that facilitate sociocultural integration, and apply these to the architectural domain. More specifically, the study focused on the development of functional program and building characteristics intended to facilitate integration and produce a suitable living environment.
The results of the present study showed that asylum status holders need to have certain places in the building, such as common rooms in which they share work and study with the rest of the building's residents, who are of different nationalities and are also local residents. In this case, they integrate into society faster and also the problem of friction that may appear among the residents of the building disappears because they spend some time together and give them some awareness and educational lectures that make them accept each other and get closer to each other more.
""NEW HERITAGE” The studio New Heritage focuses on the existing housing stock within Amsterdam Zuidoost: „Many neighbourhoods face social problems of liveability and demographic changes. Moreover, this housing, like all of our stock, should meet the future standards of energy performance, which leads to an urgent need for energy upgrading. The question arises if keeping this housing is feasible, when taking into account the complexity of technical, social, economic and aesthetic issues.“ (New Heritage, 2020) During this studio the aim has been to develop an answer on the housing stock of H-Buurt, an area within Bijlmermeer, and if it is suitable for further use or not? To make decisions on this, value-based design shall help to extract existing values as well as challenges to get a good understanding of the needs of H-Buurt. THE PROJECT IDencity is located in Hakfort as part of H-Buurt in Amsterdam Zuidoost. The project addresses the non-used car park Hakfort. The car park has been built as part of the expansion plan of Amsterdam in the mid 70’s and was originally connected to the high-rise dwelling Hakfort. The once facilitating function to society is nowadays not given anymore, since the car park finds itself empty and faces demolition in 2022 in order to make space for a new development driven by the municipality of Amsterdam. As original part of Bijlmer’s master plan, the car park incorporates the characteristics of the functional city approach, which puts the car into the centre of the city and gives Bijlmer part of its identity. Therefore, IDencity aims to draw an alternative solution to the demolition by analysing its value from an environmental, social and economic perspective. Programmatically, the project proposes an adaptive, low-carbon transformation of the existing structure into a social hub, while offering an answer to the national housing shortage by adding 120 dwellings. In summary, IDencity aims to push circularity on both a building and a society level by creating places and spaces where the existing is complemented by additions to serve both environment and society. RESEARCH QUESTION How can the adaptive reuse of car park Hakfort offer solutions to current challenges while strengthen the genius loci? Sub question 1: How can the transformation provide an answer to the national goal of carbon neutrality by 2050? Sub question 2: What possibilities of serving the one million homes challenge can be achieved while keeping the existing car park’s structure? Sub question 3: How can the adaptive reuse enhance the buildings’ value to society? CONCLUSION Environmental challenges as well as societal needs have been extracted as key elements of the proposed project. To deal with an existing structure, which is currently not used and to re-dedicate it to society can show value in keeping existing buildings rather than demolishing them. Additionally, environmental goals, like carbon neutrality and circularity can give impulses to confront oneself with the building in depth. In the framework of “New Heritage”, this results in a value based design that extracts values, enhances them and can result in valuable proposals that helps to transition towards a more sustainable built environment. In the case of car park Hakfort, high environmental value of its structure, historical value as part of original Bijlmer, as a functional city, can be used to develop a highly connective building, which interacts with society and surroundings. With its holistic approach, the project tackles relevant themes while offering flexibility to its solution.","Circular Design; zero carbon; Passive Design; Adaptive Reuse; Transformation; Bijlmermeer; Hakfort; Social housing; Car park; Community Centre","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Heritage & Architecture","","52.306452, 4.9550303"
"uuid:a65223e7-ddb7-43df-a574-235494f987e0","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:a65223e7-ddb7-43df-a574-235494f987e0","The Working Homes: Social housing dwellings affording opportunities for financial betterment through the use of integral work spaces","Akinyemi, Tomi (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Schreurs, E.P.N. (mentor); van Deudekom, A.B.J. (graduation committee); Reinders, L.G.A.J. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2021","The Working Home Project seeks to create a social housing residential neighborhood that affords opportunities for financial betterment through the use of integrated workspaces. This project stems from an interest in people. How they live and interact with each other through exploring their likes and dislikes, their needs and wishes. To explore this notion of people and their interaction, the research undertaken looked at compiling people’s stories and contextualising them within the city of Nijmegen. Considering the context of Covid-19 and a pandemic aware society, this thesis explores the coexistence of live and work activities within the home. Prior to, but enhanced by the recent pandemic, we increasingly find more people living and working in the same spaces and therefore this thesis project looks at creating a solution to the issue of designing for the contemporary family lifestyle. To adequately create design solutions for these current issues, the thesis relies heavily on the observation and study of the everyday mundane activities that take place within both the private and public realms. The studio theme Bricolage sparked several topics of interest within the working home thesis project. On a social scale, this thesis took the stories of the people of Nijmegen and began to stitch them together in order to create a broader picture of the essence of the city. Architecturally, the existing building stock was a starting point for the design. With the knowledge that the majority of our cities are built to capacity, why don’t we look at the current building stock for future use. Here we can create opportunities through interventions that repurpose and reimagine spaces within our cities by giving old buildings a new lease of life. Through the retention of the ramp and the structure of the Molenport Shopping Centre, my thesis project explores this avenue of repurposing. I find this project fitting with current issues such as sustainability and exploring new ways of repurposing materials.","Reuse; Social housing; Live/work","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Urbanism","",""
"uuid:f29371f8-c6e2-4ad4-b5a8-466cb2bb7a91","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f29371f8-c6e2-4ad4-b5a8-466cb2bb7a91","Towards Circular Social Housing: An Exploration of Practices, Barriers, and Enablers","Çetin, Sultan (TU Delft Housing Management); Gruis, V.H. (TU Delft Management in the Built Environment); Straub, A. (TU Delft Public Commissioning)","","2021","The concept of Circular Economy (CE) and its application in the built environment is an emerging research field. Scholars approach CE from various perspectives covering a wide range of topics from material innovation to city-scale application. However, there is little research on CE implementation in housing stock, particularly that which is managed or owned by the social housing organisations (SHOs) and which offers opportunities to generate circular flows of materials at the portfolio level. This research focuses on Dutch SHOs and uses the Delphi method to examine CE practices in their asset management, as well as the main barriers to and potential enablers of its uptake. The analysis of two iterative rounds of expert questioning indicates that Dutch SHOs are in the early experimental phase in CE implementation. From the results, it is evident that organisational, cultural, and financial barriers are the most pressing ones that hinder the wider adoption of CE in their asset management. Building on the panel input, this study suggests potential enablers to overcome these barriers, such as CE legislation, best practice case studies, commitment and support from the top management, and the creation of a clear business case.","Barriers; Built environment; Circular Economy; Delphi method; Enablers; Prac-tices; Social housing","en","journal article","","","","","","","","","","Management in the Built Environment","Housing Management","","",""
"uuid:77b3ccd2-5da8-4290-b5b9-e4d993a84466","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:77b3ccd2-5da8-4290-b5b9-e4d993a84466","Performance agreements to ensure societal legitimacy in the social housing sector; an embedded case study of implementation in the Netherlands","Plettenburg, S. G.J. (Student TU Delft); Hoppe, T. (TU Delft Organisation & Governance); van der Heijden, H.M.H. (TU Delft Housing Systems); Elsinga, M.G. (TU Delft Housing Institutions & Governance)","","2021","In 2015 the Housing Act was revised in order to further regulate the social housing sector in the Netherlands and thereby improve the steering possibilities for the central government to coordinate housing associations. This included local performance agreements for social housing policy obtaining a legal status. By introducing this policy instrument central government seeks to facilitate and ensure the tri-partite cooperation between municipalities, housing associations and tenants’ organisations in order to release funds by housing associations for social benefit. This should improve the position of municipalities and tenants’ organisations in social housing, and improve legitimate policy making. In this paper the main research question is: How are local performance agreements implemented targeting increased societal legitimacy in local social housing policy making, and what are its strengths and weaknesses in three selected cases in the Netherlands? A case study research design was used involving three local embedded case studies. As a theoretical framework the Contextual Interaction Theory was used. Data collection involved expert interviews and review of policy documents. Results reveal several weaknesses that impede the implementation of performance agreements, including issues in the broader governance regime and context, as well as issues with the inter-organisational structure and stakeholder interaction regarding the tri-partite cooperation between the key actors. This has to do with the precarious role of the tenants’ organisations in the process, and the local housing policy as the basis of local performance agreements. Results also show that implementation of performance agreements is more difficult in cities with dense urban areas.","Housing associations; Legitimacy; New Public Management; Performance agreements; Policy implementation; Social housing sector; Tenants organisation","en","journal article","","","","","","","","","","","Organisation & Governance","","",""
"uuid:aa4a1aec-e464-4994-9f7b-39b4e0be759c","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:aa4a1aec-e464-4994-9f7b-39b4e0be759c","Urbanización informal en tiempos de corona: Cómo el coronavirus podría cambiar la forma como tratamos a la urbanización informal","Rocco, Roberto (TU Delft Spatial Planning and Strategy)","Donoso, Rosa Elena (editor); Carrion, Andrea (editor); Donoso, Rosa Elena (editor); Carrion, Andrea (editor)","2021","The article addresses the issue of how the coronavirus can give us clues on how
to change our current views on informal urbanisation and radically transform the way in which we see social housing provision in Latin America. Despite the many ways in which informal urbanisation takes shape in Latin America, it is possible to generally assert that it does not provide adequate conditions for vulnerable citizens to face the threats posed by systemic shocks. By this token, housing is a crucial area of investment for governments aiming to increase the resilience of their cities and communities. As such, social or public housing deserves a new approach that considers it a public infrastructure that contributes to a general public good: public health. As a public infrastructure, social housing must be financed and managed in a completely different way than the current social housing systems in the region.
Applying alternative building principles in a developing country such as Ethiopia sets a new set of challenges in comparison to a housing scheme developed on the same values in the western world. Different conditions may be already present and therefore not necessary to recreate, for instance, the strong social network embedded in the informal sector. The goal of the design project is to explore the potential of various alternate circular strategies and solutions in low-income neighbourhoods such as Kolfe, Addis Ababa.","Addis Ababa; Social housing; Community Centre","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","","","9.030223, 38.707947"
"uuid:60261b03-fceb-4eca-a82c-3c591a90d901","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:60261b03-fceb-4eca-a82c-3c591a90d901","The bottlenecks in the process of realizing a housing cooperative in cities in the Netherlands: Independent housing associations that bought their property from a social housing association or developed their property newly by themselves","Zonneveld, Mees (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Czischke Ljubetic, Darinka (mentor); de Jong, Peter (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2020","In a large part of the Netherlands, middle-income households fall into the gap between the social housing sector and the market sector. Also, the supply in middle-income dwellings is too small. Municipalities face challenges in unwanted changes in the population of the city because different groups are having problems fulfilling their housing needs. In particular, lower- and middle-income groups are affected by the limited supply of housing suitable for their means. Also, as a result of national economizing, an increasing amount of elderly lives for a longer time at their own home, instead of in a healthcare institution, despite the fact they need a form of (mild) care. This group has a higher risk of the consequences of feeling lonely as well since a large part of this group lives alone. Different shared living concepts could contribute to partly solving the problems municipalities are facing. Rental- or buying prices could be lower, because of new business cases, the sharing of facilities and possibly square meters. Next to this, important social networks could be set up, which leads to differentiation and better social cohesion in a city. There are several initiatives for shared living projects, but despite mentioning the willingness to facilitate new forms of living and organizing this by some municipalities in their housing visions, different bottlenecks are making the realization of the projects difficult. One form of shared living, which is upcoming again, and can realize projects offering houses with a rent in the social and middle segment in a city, is the housing cooperative. This research will map the bottlenecks and potential solutions for these bottlenecks, in the process of realizing a housing cooperative, in cities in the Netherlands.","Housing cooperative; Bottlenecks; Solutions; Independent housing association; Management cooperative; Social housing association","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","",""
"uuid:c5dbb44e-6d43-4558-9a65-9a11c5dc6151","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:c5dbb44e-6d43-4558-9a65-9a11c5dc6151","Closed Loops, Open Justice: Creating circular construction flows, for a just social housing industry","Jeronimus, Roos (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft Urbanism); van den Broek, Jort (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft Urbanism); Gathanga, Jackson Kariuki (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft Urbanism); GAO, Chen (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft Urbanism)","Dabrowski, M.M. (mentor); Forgaci, C. (mentor); Rooij, R.M. (mentor); Rocco, Roberto (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2020","In the province of South Holland steps have been taken to create a circular construction industry to mitigate current linear processes. These linear processes include wasteful resource-intensive models that lead to loss of value and depletion of raw materials. However, to achieve a complete circular construction industry, the true social and environmental costs of this transition need to be taken into account. This has shown to increase the initial cost of construction which, if left uncontrolled, would lead to an increasing gap in the provision of affordable social housing. Therefore, the aim of this research is to provide innovative circular construction solutions for the provision of spatially just social housing in the densification of South Holland. There is a focus on the current state and trends of the construction industry in relation to the densification and social housing issues. Through literature review and data analysis the current and future issues are identified to create a toolbox of design strategies. The toolbox contains local production, modular and flexible construction, improved infrastructure, digitization, and transformation and restoration. To explore how a circular construction industry can be deployed in the provision of social housing, our focus is on three different kind of strategic areas: social housing in big cities, social housing in medium-sized cities and (former) industrial areas. The previously mentioned tools will illustrate not only the transition towards a more circular construction industry that supports the provision of social housing, but also shows how it can function as an area that engages people with the transitions towards a circular economy. This will tackles issues of segregation, diversity, equality awareness and participation.","Province of South Holland; Circular Economy; Circular construction; Social housing; Socio-environmental costs; Densification","en","student report","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","AR2U086 R&D Studio – Spatial Strategies for the Global Metropolis",""
"uuid:13bb84f2-cbcd-45ef-9cc2-0f36c0724fbe","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:13bb84f2-cbcd-45ef-9cc2-0f36c0724fbe","‘Active, young, and resourceful’: sorting the ‘good’ tenant through mechanisms of conditionality","Costarelli, I.S. (TU Delft Urban Studies; University of Milano-Bicocca); Kleinhans, R.J. (TU Delft Urban Studies); Mugnano, Silvia (University of Milano-Bicocca)","","2020","Governments’ attempts to link the provision of welfare services to (more) responsible self-conduct of citizens (i.e. responsibilization) is seen as a distinctive feature of the post-welfare state. Responsibilization often requires welfare receivers to comply with specific duties or behavioural patterns (i.e. conditionality). Except for UK-based studies, little is known about responsibilization strategies of social housing tenants based on specific allocation policies or management approaches. To fill this gap, this paper examines recent cases of tenants’ responsibilization through conditionality, i.e. allocation of housing on the condition that receivers regularly engage in supportive activities, in Utrecht (The Netherlands) and Milan (Italy). Through a qualitative methodology, this paper unpacks the use of conditionality as a means to increase tenants’ responsibilization. The paper contributes by showing both innovative aspects, such as eligibility criteria, obligations, accountability measures, and potential pitfalls connected to diverging expectations between tenants and professionals, and to specific context-related factors.","Social housing; comparative housing; conditionality; social mix; tenants responsibilization; welfare state","en","journal article","","","","","","Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.","","2020-11-13","","","Urban Studies","","",""
"uuid:4224d213-0587-4618-9382-5ca6601a954c","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:4224d213-0587-4618-9382-5ca6601a954c","Patterns of distributive justice: social housing and the search for market dynamism in Amsterdam","Jonkman, Arend (TU Delft Housing Institutions & Governance; Universiteit van Amsterdam)","","2020","Housing policy changes in the Netherlands have been in line with OECD and IMF policy advice to increase market dynamism by downsizing the large social rental sector. The impact of such policies on households, however, is rarely acknowledged. Therefore, in this article, distributive effects on social housing tenants in Amsterdam between 2004 and 2014 are evaluated against two standards for distributive justice: sufficiency and priority. These standards befit the policy aim to provide adequate (sufficient) housing for households with a certain need (priority). The analysis shows housing policies have amplified the impacts of the global financial crisis on households. The occurrence of sufficiency increased significantly until 2008, but decreased thereafter. In regards of the priority standard more households with a significant need benefitted from social housing after 2008. However, many of these households still do not meet the sufficiency threshold. While spatial patterns remained rather stable, the impact has been greater in the areas with already relatively low residual incomes.","Distributive justice; housing policy; priority; social housing; sufficiency; 1M Homes","en","journal article","","","","","","","","","","","Housing Institutions & Governance","","",""
"uuid:bc6acefc-fb96-417f-95f0-bd48ca01ec4f","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:bc6acefc-fb96-417f-95f0-bd48ca01ec4f","Detox Life Sharing Community: A green connector","Wang, Yijun (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Caso, Olindo (mentor); Koskamp, Gilbert (graduation committee); Zeinstra, Jurjen (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2019","In the future, with the development of AI, robotics and medical technology, people have higher life expectancy and focus more on mental/spiritual experience. Amstel, as a developing Amsterdam sub-center, is expected to become an (P)Leisure area by 2100. However, not every future residents can live a happy life. With virtual technology addiction, widening wealth gap and rising unemployment rate, the number of NEETs (those who are Not in Education, Employment or Training) will grow significantly. How assist them to rebuild self confidence, learn skills, and return to society is a big problem. Detox Life Sharing Community is a unique future social housing for the rehabilitation of NEETs. The healing effect of greenery plays an important part in this community. Moreover, through a collective lifestyle, the NEETs are encouraged to leave their comfort zone and rebuild social relations. By working with urban farming(tradition of Amstel), NEETs gain knowledge and give back to the community, even creating economic benefits for the entire city. This community is not only the place where the NEETs detox, but also a cultural center of the locals.","2100; Amsterdam; Amstel; urban farming; NEET; Future social housing; Rehabilitation","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Complex Projects","",""
"uuid:35a50553-88c5-4bc0-9b73-4f83c3e9c139","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:35a50553-88c5-4bc0-9b73-4f83c3e9c139","A New ""Square Deal"": For the ""Soul"" of East Harlem's Social Housing Projects","Ural, Osman (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Bouma, T. (mentor); Calabrese, L.M. (graduation committee); Verheul, W.J. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2019","New York is currently going through a construction boom as developers try to take advantage of rising land values and rents caused by economic growth, resulting in a lack of affordable housing available to middle-income families. The current Mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, has made it a priority to meet the demands and challenges of the housing crisis by incentivizing private development through various methods, such as changing zoning laws and cutting red tape for access to abandoned lands, as a way to inject steroids into the housing market (Kaysen, 2018). This has unfortunately caused issues such as gentrification and speculative development, which has led to the disenfranchisement of low-income inhabitants in the city (Kaysen, 2018). These policies have marginalized people by either forcing the poor to either live in the periphery of the city, or be crammed into social housing projects that were built more than half a century ago. This is worrisome due to the fact that these aged dwellings display a variety of health and safety issues that the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) is having a hard time managing. The low-income families which rely on these projects have a hard time paying the minimum rent to begin with, and when you couple this with unacceptable living conditions, you end up with the spatial manifestation of an increasing divide between the rich and poor which now defines New York City. What is more shocking is that when you look back in history, the social housing projects were originally seen as a solution to poverty and slumification, but they ended up just being vertical versions of the slums which they took place of (Ferré-Sadurní, 2018). In order to help these disenfranchised people living in the projects, there must be an effort in place to help increase their quality of life. In order to achieve this, the monofunctionality of their public space needs to be made more functionally diverse. This is because the lack of diversity in both social and programmatic elements results in low public activity, which in turn leads to crime and vandalism due to a lack of self-awareness which tends to not exist in places of high public activity (Jacobs, 1961). In addition to this, the problem of public space is exasperated by the design philosophy that was used to create the projects. Planners used the International Style, which was a popular urbanist theory during the time that the dwellings were created. By clearing the tenement slums that were defined by a spatial hierarchy created by the street grid of New York City, he accused the planners of intentionally destroying the rich hierarchy and variety that existed in the contextual public realm (Kunstler, 2004). He also argues that the high-rises of the projects themselves destroyed any sense of human scale, which in combination of his other concerns, eradicated the inhabitants connection to the public realm (Kunstler, 2004). By looking at these failures of the social housing projects, a transformational framework needs to be produced that acknowledges these issues of monofunctionality, scale, and safety. This framework should also act as a blueprint of rehabilitation for all NYCHA projects, including what needs and characteristics need to be created in order to activate a public space that increases the inhabitants quality of life. By providing a framework that brings the “soul” of public space in these projects back to life, the original intent of the projects - or the promise it made to the people who would live in them - can be met and achieved.","New York; East Harlem; Progressivism; Social Housing; Public Space; Redevelopment; Regeneration; Modularity; Palimpsest; Social Equality; Transformation; Fractalization; Zoning; Urban Planning; Sustainabilty; Productive Landscape; Heritage & Architecture; Historical Analysis","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","History and Heritage","40.7921034982, -73.9373579172"
"uuid:ca601cb9-3983-49f4-b66a-afc7fabd329b","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ca601cb9-3983-49f4-b66a-afc7fabd329b","A Kitchen for Life: Designing a service that engages social housing tenants in using a circular kitchen system","de Rooij, Bas (TU Delft Industrial Design Engineering)","Bakker, Conny (mentor); Schuffelers, Renée (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2019","The planet cannot keep sustaining our linear economy much longer. Industries are moving circular to reduce environmental impact. The kitchen industry has to change. CIK (the Circular Kitchen) is a research project that develops a circular kitchen: a product-service system for tenants in social housing in the Netherlands. The product is aimed to be market ready in 2022 and should have significantly less negative environmental impact. The partners in this project are material suppliers, part suppliers, a kitchen manufacturer, a contractor, housing associations and tenants. For a functioning and viable design, all stakeholders must cooperate. This graduation project started with investigating what tensions the circular kitchen might bring for social housing tenants and finds a solution for this. With an integral approach, the life of the tenants in the kitchen was researched along with the changes that the circular kitchen brings. All aspects of design were taken into account: technology, business and people. The approach for this project, an ‘iterative representation of the basic design cycle’, is combined with methods from service design and user-centered design. This project is divided in three consecutive cycles. Every cycle contains different phases: framing, envisioning, realisation and validation. In each cycle the design is iterated and refined. The assignment and problem definition form the basis and starting point for analyses. CIK, the stakeholders, and the background of the problem are researched. ‘Design A’ is evaluated in user research. The context of the problem was investigated by using literature studies and context-mapping with tenants. The context-mapping sessions provided a holistic view on the life of the user in the kitchen. It appeared that tenants differ in their perception of the kitchen. Their kitchen has an emotional or functional role and their activity in the kitchen are either individually or socially focused. These findings are visualised in a framework that shows four types of social housing tenants (Figure 1). Additionally, shared values were found among this research group (Figure 2).
In cycle B new knowledge that was retrieved from user research is framed to start refining the design. The service- side of CIK needed development: new insights were translated into an integral service concept that tackles conflicts that can arise between circular interest and the tenants. The input of the evaluation of the design with the major stakeholder - the kitchen manufacturer - resulted into the introduction of a new partner that drives the organisation as a whole: Het Keukencollectief. An intermediary that guides all stakeholders and is the key to a successful and fertile business. Cycle C is focused on detailing the intermediary (Het Keukencollectief), the service, and the front-end of the service (digital web-app). Research demonstrated that the business should focus on both the basic kitchen and on upgrade possibilities. This formed the basis of a newly created digital platform. A final evaluation of the front-end design of the service showed that the design was attractive for the tenant and functioned as envisioned. To conclude, this report describes a user-centered design process in multiple iterative cycles resulting in a design proposal for a service system to facilitate a circular kitchen for social housing in the Netherlands. The most important addition to the current project is the design of the intermediary ‘Het Keukencollectief’ with the front-end service design.","Social Housing; Circular Kitchen; Tenant Behaviour","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Design for Interaction","the Circular Kitchen",""
"uuid:b802a076-ae9e-44a9-8298-4099013b450b","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:b802a076-ae9e-44a9-8298-4099013b450b","Burkinabé Domesticity: A contextualized response to rapid urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa","Somé, Robyne (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Mota, Nelson (mentor); van de Voort, Jan (graduation committee); Rocco, Roberto (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2019","Burkina Faso is a developing country that is in a demographic transition. Its diverse population with dozens of ethnic groups, each with its own values and traditions, is growing at an extreme rate and exemplifies the phenomenon of rapid urbanization. However, the current social housing programs exclude more than 50% of the population, living from less than 75 euros a month. Housing is not accessible to the majority of the population, because of the high demand, the rising cost of basic building materials such as iron and cement, weak policies, no collaboration between the state and private sectors, and a large low-income population. This research and design project aim to contextualize issues such as high population growth, rapid urbanization, and the lack of mass social housing aimed at the Burkinabé population, whilst considering its context and cultural values. Planning for the expansion of cities, which were originally built for a limited few, is a challenge many countries in the Global South face and one that applies to all architects, planners and designers around the world. This paper shows that considering contextual Burkinabé strategies, such as the vernacular way of constructing with local techniques and materials whilst considering the harsh climate, and the way the large variety of ethnic groups communicates and shares resources, is important when wanting to scale up the rural dwellings to a city scale. Fusing both the vernacular and an African modernity offers viable solutions to the spatial development of the country’s urban growth.","Burkina Faso; Domesticity; urbanization; housing; social housing; incremental; Sub/Saharan Africa; Africa; clusters","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","",""
"uuid:dc001b21-b9d7-4882-b3e9-4dd276f8294f","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:dc001b21-b9d7-4882-b3e9-4dd276f8294f","Residence of Reunion: The Inclusive City","Faber, Liesbeth (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Kupers, Theo (mentor); Adema, Ferry (graduation committee); van der Putt, Pierijn (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2019","Social housing for refugee families focussing specifically on three aspects:
1. Designing suitable housing for families within the typology of the gallery flat,
2. Designing for refugees: social and spatial needs of this target group
3. The multicultural floor plan: what can different dwelling cultures add to the standard Dutch gallery floor plan?
Since the building is located in the city centre of Amsterdam, the notion of designing compact floor plans is also an important addition to these previous aspects.","Families; Refugees; Dwelling; Gallery; Apartment Building; Courtyard; Social housing; Flexibility; Compact; Tower; Plinth; Amsterdam; Manifesto; Multicultural Floor plan","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","","52.366926, 4.924369"
"uuid:44e88dad-0c83-4a19-96af-c600dba29768","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:44e88dad-0c83-4a19-96af-c600dba29768","Integrating Installations into a Zero-Energy Renovation","Berkhout, Rosanne (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Klein, Tillmann (mentor); van den Engel, Peter (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2019","In order to counter climate change many approaches have been taken to make
the building sector more sustainable. But for porch houses there aren't many
solutions on the market. This research project uses one of the approaches that
is does focus on porch houses, 2ndskin. In march 2018 a demonstrator project
has been build in Vlaardingen using the 2ndskin approach. The research found a
problem with integrating the installations, they took up a lot of space and were so heavy that an extra foundation was needed. This problem is not unique to 2ndskin or the zero-on-the-meter renovations of porch houses, it's a problem in other sustainable projects as well. Therefore this research has looked into the following problem:
The installations needed to renovate a post-war porch house in accordance with the 2ndskin approach are too heavy and take up a lot of valuable space.
Current systems have been analyzed in order to solve this problem. The
comparison of these systems unveiled the main causes of the size and weight
of these systems: Empty space between the installations, placement of the
connections, required space for installation and maintenance, the kind of
installations used and the integration between them. In the end three concepts
where presented. Prioritizing different aims, the concepts show different ways
to integrate the installations according to different priorities.. For the 2ndskin
demonstrator project these concepts show that its possible to decrease the by
50% to 70% and the weight by 30% to 60%. The amount of possible decrease
depends on the priorities within the project. But, smaller installations spaces are
possible when designing from within the installations instead of around it.","heat pump; sustainable design; Size optimization; Weight Reduction; Porch houses; social housing; 2ndskin; ventilation; integration","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","","2ndskin","51.54419, 4.19393"
"uuid:1347930c-a7d8-45f1-a47e-53159bf1ddd4","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:1347930c-a7d8-45f1-a47e-53159bf1ddd4","Feasibility and Affordability in Brazilian Social Housing according to the Open Building Approach: An Architectural Prospection","Da Fonseca Lamounier, Rosamônica (Centro Universitário Metodista Izabela Hendrix); Prins, M. (TU Delft Design & Construction Management); Morado Nascimento, Denise (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)","","2019","This paper presents results of an architectural research regarding public Brazilian social housing production. Its goal was to evaluate the design, technological-constructive, economic and management feasibility of producing, as well as the financial feasibility for dwellers to access a more adequate dwelling, in light of the Open Building approach. The investigation arises from two issues: [1] spatial rigidity of units and buildings and [2] the absence of dwellers in the decision-making process once currently this producton is the result of the exclusive partnership between State and Market. Besides the inadequacy when meeting families’ housing needs, the current rate of housing production is low compared to the predominant housing provision performed by the Autoconstruction. This paper demonstrates that Habraken’s Supports Theory is, as a counterpoint, an effective way of reconciling the contradictions mentioned and replacing the obsolete paradigm with a new interweaving of Autoconstruction and State/Market production traditions and possibilities. Based on the distinction between the levels of decision-making, collective decisions (manifested in a Support or Base Building) and decisions respecting the autonomy of individual dwellings (Infill or Fit-out), the Open Building approach solves simultaneously, and interdependently, the physical, but also social and political problems identified in the research.","Brazilian social housing; Autoconstruction; Open Building; Support and Infill; Levels of decision-making","en","journal article","","","","","","","","","","","Design & Construction Management","","",""
"uuid:05de9129-fe48-4981-9d9c-4a6e60f689fc","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:05de9129-fe48-4981-9d9c-4a6e60f689fc","‘Thou shalt be a (more) responsible tenant’: exploring innovative management strategies in changing social housing contexts","Costarelli, I.S. (TU Delft Urban Studies; University of Milano-Bicocca); Kleinhans, R.J. (TU Delft Urban Studies); Mugnano, Silvia (University of Milano-Bicocca)","","2019","The nature of housing management has often been contested between two main orientations, business-like (i.e. economic efficiency) and social welfare (i.e. social support), reflecting the dual identity of social housing providers, as both private enterprises and welfare promoters. Research shows that housing management is particularly susceptible to transformations in the broader social housing sector. Considering the last two decades, the demand for social housing has increased across Western Europe, involving different social categories, e.g. low-middle income and, more recently, asylum seekers. On the supply side, housing providers have become keener to involve residents in delivering and managing housing-related services. This paper explores how innovative management strategies are emerging in the context of broader changes in social rented sectors and welfare policies in countries characterised by different typologies of housing systems, Italy and the Netherlands. By means of case studies and semi-structured interviews, this paper scrutinizes specific management approaches, i.e. Integrated Social Management and self-management, in two recent social housing projects in Milan and Amsterdam, which target socially mixed tenants, i.e. status-holders, low-income and young locals. Despite several differences, management approaches in both cases aim to increase tenants’ responsibilisation but with different focus: towards the community, i.e. social integration of vulnerable tenants in the housing project (Dutch case), and towards individual dwellings, i.e. boosting individuals’ self-agency in relation to the maintenance of properties (Italian case). This paper discusses how distinct, and sometimes normative, premises underlying tenants participation in housing management shape specific relationships between residents and housing providers.","Amsterdam; Collaborative housing; Housing management; Milan; Mixed communities; Social housing","en","journal article","","","","","","Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.","","2019-12-13","","","Urban Studies","","",""
"uuid:f17a461c-d711-4ae5-8c21-a4467235681d","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f17a461c-d711-4ae5-8c21-a4467235681d","Reflections on the European Social Housing Model and Opportunities for Collaborative Housing from a Dutch Perspective","Gruis, V.H. (TU Delft Management in the Built Environment)","Vergara, Luz María (editor); Robertson, Cristián (editor); Czischke, Darinka (editor); Schlack, Elke (editor); Tapia, Rodrigo (editor)","2019","By way of introduction, this chapter explains the main differences and convergences in housing provision paradigms in European and Chilean cities. From housing as part of Welfare State models, both societies have seen the replacement of the right to housing by the financialization of housing. The chapter highlights a red thread in this book, namely the presence of “cultures of the collective” in the provision of housing, which responds to different traditions and contexts in cities in the global north and in the global south. However, despite these differences, both relate to the essential question on how urban dwellers decide on how they want to live.","Housing cooperatives; Housing corporations; Path dependency; Social housing; The Netherlands","mul","book chapter","TU Delft OPEN Publishing","","","","","","","","","Management in the Built Environment","","","",""
"uuid:abe61996-288f-4e38-9472-4c5354831c56","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:abe61996-288f-4e38-9472-4c5354831c56","Split to Fit","van de Ven, Tijs (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Lamers, Emiel (mentor); Stoutjesdijk, Pieter (mentor); van der Zaag, Engbert (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2018","My graduation project is about renovation and splitting the low quality walk-up flats into multiple and ’responsive’ housing that allows one person households to live in smaller spaces that have a higher functionality, so we can respond to the population growth into the cities. A number of amenities in a home can be shared in the current forms of living. As a result, there is a smaller space requirement, which in turn benefits the affordability of the home. This graduation project is also about a sharing economy that can have an impact on our society in such a way that it can provide an answer to social developments and the effects in the field of housing.","Compact; Post-war walk-up; Research by design; Social housing","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","","","51.9230702, 4.505010299999981"
"uuid:9472af11-1d0b-4526-bb1a-aa2378287d54","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:9472af11-1d0b-4526-bb1a-aa2378287d54","Vertical Mumbai: Development of qualitative social housing in a highly dense city","Piethaan, Willem (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft Architecture)","Amorim Mota, Nelson (mentor); van Gameren, Dirk (mentor); Varma, Rohan (mentor); Bokel, Regina (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2018","In the past decades Mumbai has experienced a huge increase of citizens who, drawn by the economic opportunities of the big city, come to Mumbai for chances of a better life. The city is struggling with the effects that this has on the city. A big part of its population reside in informal settlements, living under impoverished circumstances. This graduationproject revolves around improving these circumstances through the development and design of durable, affordable, qualitative social housing that is able to reach high densities while maintaining a qualitative level of living.","Mumbai; Social housing; High density housing; incremental housing; high-rise buildings","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","","","19.428304, 72.813836"
"uuid:ad2e4a7a-c34a-40c9-942e-7f206adecd34","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ad2e4a7a-c34a-40c9-942e-7f206adecd34","De Kunst van het Ontmoeten: De invloed van architectuur op de ontmoetingsmomenten van ouderen","Dikmans, Sophie (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Jurgenhake, B.M. (mentor); Jennen, P.H.M. (mentor); van Rhijn, Jaap (mentor); van Dorst, M.J. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2018","The aging population and the policy changes regarding long-term care pose a challenge for dwelling design. Our current way of building is too focused on privacy, comfort, and individualism, which exacerbates loneliness for this vulnerable target group. This graduation project therefore investigated in what way architecture can stimulate the informal encounter to increase the quality of life in housing for the elderly. Literature research and various interviews with the elderly have led to architectural elements and design conditions that can be used in the design of a residential building for the elderly target group.
Subsequently, the results of the research were applied to a design location in Amsterdam Nieuw-West. The building combines social housing for the elderly with facilities for the neighborhood, to ensure more liveliness in and around the building. By mixing the elderly with other generations, both groups can benefit from each other’s help. The shared spaces are designed in a way that the residents can meet each other in a natural way. Since the apartments are intended for social rent, the housing is relatively small; 30m2, 45m2 & 60m2. The apartments are not only designed for the elderly, but also suitable for other target groups, like single households, students and starters. By small adjustments, such as sliding walls, the housing can still enable aging in place.","Architecture; Elderly; Informal encounter; built environment; social interaction; Social housing; social architecture; loneliness; Amsterdam; Healthcare architecture; Aging in place","mul","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Health","","52.356947, 4.787218"
"uuid:e31185df-08cb-4b0a-94ed-4b567f905846","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e31185df-08cb-4b0a-94ed-4b567f905846","An exploration of concepts and polices on ‘affordable housing’ in England, Italy, Poland and The Netherlands","Czischke, D.K. (TU Delft Housing Management); van Bortel, G.A. (TU Delft Housing Management)","","2018","The term ‘affordable housing’ has been rapidly gaining currency over the last decade across Europe, both in policy and research circles. While it is often used as a synonym or close relative of the term ‘social housing’, more recently it is finding its own definition and policy instruments in specific cities and countries. However, boundaries between both concepts remain unclear. To shed light on recent developments of each of these terms, this paper presents findings from a study commissioned by the European Investment Bank, which investigated current trends in definitions, programmes and policies both in social housing and affordable housing. This paper focuses on findings for England, Italy, Poland and The Netherlands. Methods used included desk research and interviews with key informants in each of the four countries. In addition, in-depth information about Italy and The Netherlands was gathered through stakeholder workshops carried out between September and November 2016. Findings show that affordable housing in all four countries is becoming a more distinct field, in parallel to developments in social housing. In addition, the paper describes some innovative policies undertaken to develop affordable housing solutions. The paper concludes with a reflection on scenarios for future policy developments and an agenda for further research.","Affordable housing definition; Affordable housing policies; England; International comparative research; Italy; Poland; Social housing; The Netherlands","en","journal article","","","","","","","","","","","Housing Management","","",""
"uuid:31933a52-d218-495a-ab87-66b49ce62110","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:31933a52-d218-495a-ab87-66b49ce62110","The NEMAVO Airey system: A wealth of options","Spoormans, L.G.K. (TU Delft Heritage & Design); Zijlstra, H. (TU Delft Heritage & Design); Quist, W.J. (TU Delft Heritage & Technology)","Wouters, Ine (editor); Van de Voorde, Stephanie (editor); Bertels, Inge (editor); Espion, Bernard (editor); De Jonge, Krista (editor); Zastavni, Denis (editor)","2018","After the Second World War there were serious shortages of building materials and trained personnel, the demand for housing was high and construction budgets were low. Together these factors created an environment for the large-scale development of non-traditional residential construction systems in the Netherlands. One of these was the NEMAVO Airey system imported from the United Kingdom and adapted for the Dutch market. This article focusses on the external walls used in this system, a combination of precast concrete columns and precast concrete cladding panels arranged on a grid, which give the Airey houses their typical appearance. The Airey houses in the Netherlands exhibit a great variety within a recognisable system. This article addresses what aspects of the construction system, historical context, system developments, parties involved, and later circumstances and interventions resulted in the wide range of remaining stock of NEMAVO Airey houses in the Netherlands.","1945-1965; facade typologies; precast concrete; social housing; construction history","en","conference paper","CRC Press / Balkema - Taylor & Francis Group","","","","","Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.","","2019-03-05","","","Heritage & Design","","",""
"uuid:ad48d073-6e01-40d1-9d80-ae0edd521742","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ad48d073-6e01-40d1-9d80-ae0edd521742","State directed hybridity?: The relationship between non-profit housing organizations and the state in three national contexts","Mullins, David (University of Birmingham); Milligan, Vivienne (University of New South Wales); Nieboer, N.E.T. (TU Delft OLD Housing Quality and Process Innovation)","","2018","This paper presents results from the first international comparative study of non-profit housing organizations in Australia, England and the Netherlands to engage with panels of organizational leaders. The study uses a ‘modified Delphi method’ with Likert-type scaled surveys, followed by in-depth interviews. The paper introduces the concept of hybridity as a way of understanding the interaction of state, market and community drivers in steering non-profit housing organizations. In all three countries, findings indicate that there are clear limits to independence from continued state influence. In England this takes the form of state-directed cross-subsidy and welfare reform, in Australia business development strategies have had to respond to volatility and reductions in state funding, while in the Netherlands public policy has recently restricted the remit of associations to a low-income niche and reduced commercial involvement. These findings lend support to ‘contested logics’ models of organizational hybridity rather than either ‘out-of-control monstrous hybrids’ or linear privatization models.","Comparative housing; Delphi method; housing investment; hybridity; non-profits; social housing","en","journal article","","","","","","Accepted Author Manuscript","","2018-09-25","","","OLD Housing Quality and Process Innovation","","",""
"uuid:efa5b6bb-7bb2-49e6-99f5-d4ede0e67d5d","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:efa5b6bb-7bb2-49e6-99f5-d4ede0e67d5d","Justice and liveability in social housing regeneration: Learning lessons for London","Unzner, Franziska (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft Urbanism)","Nadin, Vincent (mentor); Wandl, Alexander (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2017","Post-war council estates in the UK - due to issues in built quality, maintenance, design and an accumulation of social problems - have been object to various regeneration initiatives over the past decades. The latest market-led regeneration wave, however, is controversially and heatedly discussed. Council estates are densified and developed into mixed communities with the introduction of market tenure. Particularly in the context of London’s housing crisis, this approach is criticised to prioritise market demands over the needs of the original inhabitants and cause a loss of much needed genuinely affordable housing. The aim of this research is therefore to contribute to the search of methods to achieve more socially balanced development within these regeneration processes in London – in particular, to explore the role planning and design can play to ensure that the needs of lower income groups are met. The main evaluation criteria are the provision of genuinely affordable housing, meaningful resident engagement and design that responds to the various needs within mixed communities. A set of recommendations is developed based on the analysis of London’s planning and policy framework and two differing case studies: the controversial Heygate Estate/Elephant&Castle development and the infill approach of the Dover Court Estate regeneration. What is more, lessons are drawn from regeneration approaches in Amsterdam and Vienna, two cities well known for housing. The research revealed that estate regeneration is dependent on multiple economic, political and social factors. In London, central government directives including housing policy, funding allocation and regulation of local authorities play a decisive role in how individual regeneration schemes can be approached. At the same time, planning tasks such as a thorough decision making process, meaningful resident engagement, detailed and transparent monitoring as well as effective negotiation with the private sector can be supported on the city-wide or local level. Therefore, the proposal does not only include process and design recommendations, but also institutional capacity building strategies.","Social housing; Urban regeneration; International lessons; Policy framework; Mixed communities; London","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","","","51.509865, -0.118092"
"uuid:e07f9ebc-3002-47a6-b608-66b965487230","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e07f9ebc-3002-47a6-b608-66b965487230","Renovation of the Airey Blocks","Chen, Yuan (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Spoormans, Lidwine (mentor); Bas, Gerben (mentor); Clarke, Nicholas (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2017","","Airey system; renovation; social housing","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","","",""
"uuid:dcf68862-ab86-4029-8647-0d327c5e96fc","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:dcf68862-ab86-4029-8647-0d327c5e96fc","Dwelling as cash machine: An explorative study towards dwelling-generated revenue to reduce housing expenses","van der Sijde, Jelrik (TU Delft Civil Engineering and Geosciences; TU Delft Engineering Structures)","Elsinga, M.G. (mentor); van der Heijden, H.M.H. (mentor); Hoppe, T. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2017","Housing affordability is a growing problem in the Netherlands. Approximately 15% of all households has a housing cost overburden rate (i.e. spending more than 40% of the household’s disposable income on the total housing expenses). This research explores a new way to contribute to housing affordability. Dwelling-generated revenue is introduced as umbrella concept to catch all potential ideas that may lead to revenue generated by a dwelling or its affiliated services that can be used to reduce housing expenses. A taxonomy of dwelling-generated revenue options is presented. Revenue options can be either object (i.e.: dwelling) or subject (i.e.: resident) bound. Object related revenues are selling a surplus of energy, third party compensation and (sub)letting. Subject related revenues are the monetization of in-home generated data and monetization of recyclable household waste. Through a multi-criteria analysis, in which five housing and innovation experts judged the revenue options, the most promising options are determined. The implementation of those options in the social housing sector is discussed, since most households with payment risks are found within sector.","housing affordability; user costs; housing expenses; innovation; exploratory; dwelling-generated revenue; taxonomy; multi-criteria analysis; expert judgement; affordable housing; social housing; data monetization; surplus energy dwelling; subletting; Airbnb","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Civil Engineering | Construction Management and Engineering","",""
"uuid:b7977382-346c-4a71-95a6-21d9985a78c6","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:b7977382-346c-4a71-95a6-21d9985a78c6","A sustainable habitat for Suriname: Climate responsive design for the humid tropical country of Suriname","Lachman, D.R.A.","Nottrot, R.J. (mentor); Van der Meel, H.L. (mentor); Van den Ham, E.R. (mentor)","2016","","Sustainability; Tropical Architecture; Suriname; Social Housing; Climate Responsive Design","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Architecture","","Explore Lab","","5.719856,-55.246239"
"uuid:52e82737-420c-4ddd-b766-ad2265cccee9","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:52e82737-420c-4ddd-b766-ad2265cccee9","Favelas and the normative, institutional Social Housing System in Brazil: discipline versus freedom, private versus public through the analysis of the unprivileged working class history","Chagas Cavalcanti, A.R. (TU Delft OLD Woningbouw)","Hein, Carola (editor)","2016","Most of today’s Brazilian Social Housing Institutional complexes are standardized mass buildings. They are planned in the periphery of cities, have no connection to public transportation systems and are disconnected from their respective local context. The planning approach to housing is compliant with ‘state simpli cation models’ which turn a blind eye from the dynamics of the informal sector. This unprecedented study demonstrates that the polarization between institutional planning and the changing needs of society continues to expose the vast inequalities between social classes. This is analysed through a historic study of the Brazilian working class system and its development over recent years. The study compares two very distinct scenarios: on one hand, social housing conceived by traditional stakeholders, institutions and real estate agencies seems to follow a disciplinary approach and segment the life of privileged workers/formal workers. On the other hand, less privileged workers are allowed to freely build their own housing. Thus, this article traces a -binary interrelation between planning for the privileged and for the unprivileged, explaining how favelas became a legitimate form of mass housing in Brazil.