37º IAHS World Congress on Housing: - Universidad de Cantabria

XXXVII <strong>IAHS</strong><strong>World</strong> <strong>Congress</strong> on HousingOctober 26 – 29, 2010, Santander, SpainCODE: 519INFLUENCE OF BUILDING CODES AND SITE CONDITIONSON THE ALTERATION OF A TYPICAL LOW-COSTHOUSING DESIGN CONSEQUENT ALTERATION OFCRIME RISK LEVELSR. Montagna *, E. Pandolfi ,** R.M. Barboni ****Professor of Building Technology, Dep.t of DACS, Politechnical University of Marche Italye-mail: r.montagna@univpm.it;** E.R.A.P. (public houses Institute) of Province of Pesaro-Urbino e-mail ettopand@libero.it*** Professor of Criminology, Dep.t “Collegio Dottori 1506”, University ‘C.Bò’ Urbino Italye-mail: rita.barboni@uniurb.itKey words: standardized housing design, building codes, alterations; crime risk levels.AbstractAs a component of the process of rationalization, low-cost housing Institutions, as well asmajor investment companies, commonly reuse a typical design as a standard. The goal of thisprocedure is to obtain cheaper costs both in the construction and in the maintenance of anhomogeneous lot of buildings.The paper shows that, nevertheless an identical design being proposed in different towns, thefinal results are buildings with a different aspect. This is mainly due to the influence ofbuilding codes of the urban plan of the specific town, and to the site conditions, such as streetorientation, ground inclination and so on.As a result the paper offers the ability to manage the external factors on a standard design(with the afore said scale vantages) though the formal view looks different. This may beconsidered a further cheap vantage that aims to obtain a personalization in town design.A second, but not secondary result, comes from the evaluation of the different risk levels,under crime protection perspective, obtained by alteration of the original typical design.According to the type of alteration, crime risk levels may increase or decrease. 11 Chapters 1-4 are written by prof. Montagna & Pandolfi, chapters 5-7 are written by prof. Barboni37º <strong>IAHS</strong> <strong>World</strong> <strong>Congress</strong> On Housing Science 227