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5. How does a Social Housing project give voice to
the needs of final beneficiaries?
What we did was to engage the community of Tor
Fiscale (already living in that area) to verify what were
the needs and the local knowledge of housing technologies
and sustainability issues. This phase of investigation
was crucial for the entire process of design and project
definition, orienting our following choices. The best
aspect of this process was to customize the architecture
to people’s needs, not only in terms of spaces but also in
its intrinsic and operative essence.
What has been explained above points at a future
scenario in which environmental and social challenges
will drive changes in the architectural sector. Sustainable
performances in the production process and resource
management, together with integrated communities
and technology devices serving everyday’s needs of
low-income people suggest the idea of an integrated
approach, linking together people, environment and
technology in a closed loop where none/nothing is an
end-user since Everything is re-fed into the production
cycle or re-absorbed by community dynamics.
Such a circular way of thinking architectural and living
standards is as innovative as it succeeds at shaping new
sustainable habits, something that drives directly to the
next case study: Reverse.
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