Standardisation & Versitility
Sociaal & Eigen in Mooi Mokum
M.W. Verheij (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
Harald Mooij – Mentor (TU Delft - Public Building and Housing Design)
R.S. Guis – Mentor (TU Delft - Teachers of Practice / A)
E. Karanastasi – Mentor (TU Delft - Teachers of Practice / AE+T)
Arie Romein – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Education and Student Affairs)
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Abstract
Contemporary social housing development in the Netherlands often prioritises standardisation over progressive and imaginative design, resulting in an undesirable dullness of the urban environment. However, there are also advantages to standardisation in the built environment, like reduced design costs, quicker construction times, higher technical quality, and potential for circularity/sustainability. In short, there is an unwanted lack of architectural diversity and individual living style and freedom, caused by a strong focus on standardisation and its benefits. To change this current state, other forms of social housing complexes have to be explored. Buildings that support diverse living conditions for diverse inhabitants, that favour equitable housing over equal housing, with architectural emphasis on the unicity of its users. Housing that invites people to explore their style of living, that evokes a feeling of freedom of style.