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Laurentino38. Example of deprived social housing estates in Rome. Chapter 7 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Residents complained about low quality of all interventions implemented by ATER. Concerning the renovation of the facade, for example, the same problems occurred shortly after intervention. Social quality Social management. People strongly complain about failure of social management by ATER. They do not feel safe at all because of the number of crime incidents in the last years. Control by police is almost absent and ATER is incapable of managing arrearage and especially squatting. An illegal network controls apartments that are immediately occupied as soon as they are vacant (even when people go on vacation or are hospitalized). Social safety. Drug addicted are present in the neighbourhood and booster criminality. This reinforced the bad reputation and unattractiveness of the neighbourhood. The media contributes by reporting on this topic. Social cohesion. Residents do really care their neighbourhood, especially about social relationships that grew over years. They personally take care of open spaces even though this is the responsibility of the Municipality. Despite all mentioned difficulties, social cohesion is very strong. Together with green and favourable location, it is often mentioned by the residents as the most important quality of Laurentino38. Some physical interventions were implemented in Laurentino38 in the last years. In May 2006 demolition of some of the bridges started. The demolished volume is supposed to be substituted by new housing for special groups, like the elderly and young couples. Despite the high costs, this solution seems to be quite successful. The bridges in fact, where considered by people as the most deprived building in the neighbourhood. In 2005, some of the bridges were repainted. This intervention was appreciated by residents as a way to identify the blocks with colours rather than with numbers. However, they all claimed renovation should not only consider common facilities, but should also address buildings and dwellings where the most urgent liveability problems are concentrated. To qualitatively address ‘on the renovation major aspects people would like to spend money ’, four questions were posed to a group of residents and Pietro Barucci to reveal to what extent the two parts share the purpose of renovation. It emerged that: Residents and architects won’t spend money for renovation of dwellings on similar items. Inhabitants would mainly improve technical equipments, while the architect would try to solve problems at a higher level like, for example, management of common facilities and open spaces. Both parties mentioned adaptation of existing facade to current technical standards as a relevant issue (especially thermal insulation). Divergences emerged concerning the building parts to be renovated. Unlike the architect, residents would again solve technical problems, like deterioration of external side of the facade or water infiltration. Improvement of building façade is mentioned on the top of the list. Different opinions also emerged concerning willingness of people to move elsewhere. Residents highly value social relationships and accept technical or functional defects of dwellings. The architect would only move into Laurentino38 to work. Both agree on combining energy consumption and aesthetics for physical renovation of buildings, but residents does not claim the need of readapting floor plans. Finally, to get more insights into the ‘maintenance’ practice in Laurentino38, some questions were asked to architects employed in the Technical Department of ATER. The most relevant issues that were put forward are: Despite the efforts, conditions of buildings and dwellings are not up to standard. The following items should be both dealt with in future interventions and deserve further attention: o water supply, o structural problems (especially stability of the blocks), o sewerage system, 26. G
Laurentino38. Example of deprived social housing estates in Rome. Chapter 7 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- o thermal insulation of existing façade (following the example of the cooperatives but solving thermal bridges and substituting also window frames and glazing), o management of public spaces o realization of all the facilities foreseen by the master plan (they have not been completed). Availability of funding did not change renovation approach. Interventions are still very superficial and focused on solving limited problems. There is a lack of integration of interventions. INTRODUCTION TO THE EIGHT CHAPTER The eight Chapter addresses the last research question: what might be strengths and weakness of implementing Dutch physical measures for renovation in the Roman context? It provides general directions for improvement of an intervention strategy for renovation of social housing estates in Laurentino38 and a matrix of physical measures for renovation to support decision making of housing associations and other parties. 27. G
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