intervention strategies for renovation of social housing estates

The research set up Chapter 1
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of the author (based on literature and comments of people and experts interviewed) and
professionals (Dutch and Italian experts).
Depending on the intended level of physical transformation in a residential block, the
corresponding renovation approach is suggested. Each approach can be implemented
applying a combination of physical measures from the respective toolbox. According to the
four listed items, weaknesses and strengths of each measure can be checked using a matrix.
The research is structured into nine chapters. The first chapter deals with the study design.
The second summarizes the relevant knowledge concerning renovation of large social
housing estates. The third Chapter introduces the Italian and Dutch context with respect to
social housing and provides directions for solutions transferable from the Dutch to the Italian
housing management model. The fourth chapter introduces the physical aspects of
renovation. It provides examples of renovation projects recently realized in the Netherlands
and a study of possible intervention strategies for a deprived social housing block in Rome.
This fifth and the sixth chapter deepen insights into a best practice example of renovation in
the Netherlands, the Florijn Noord in the Bijlmermeer (Amsterdam South-East). The seventh
chapter describes large social housing estates in Rome. It provides information on a deprived
neighbourhood from the 1970s and then focuses on the case of Laurentino 38 to explain
problems in a part of the social housing stock in Rome.
Finally, in the eighth chapter the matrix of physical measures is discussed. Then, major
recommendations for improvement of intervention strategy of ATER Roma are presented.
The table below shows the main relationship among the three packages (P1, P2 P3), the
three main research questions (RQ 1, RQ2 RQ 3) and the chapters in which the answers are
provided.
SUBJECT QUESTION CHAPTER
P 1)
SOCIAL HOUSING
RENOVATION: ITALY
NETHERLANDS
P 2)
EXAMPLES OF
RENOVATION:
NETHERLANDS
P 3)
TRANSFERABILITY
RQ 1)
RQ 1) What solutions to improve renovation of social housing
estates in Rome could be identified in the Dutch housing
management model?
RQ 2)
RQ 2) What envelope directed physical measures have been
applied in good examples practices of renovation of social
housing estates in the Netherlands?
RQ 3)
RQ 3) What might be strengths and weaknesses of
implementing Dutch physical measures for renovation in the
Roman context?
INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND CHAPTER
The second chapter provides an introduction to the theoretical background of this research.
In particular, over fours sections, it describes the historical background of deprived social
housing estates in Europe, presents theoretical models describing the process of change and
decay of neighborhoods. This chapter also provides an overview of underlying factors of
decay and renovation by means of life cycle extension and open building theory.
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