Understanding Social Sustainability in Housing Form the Case Study "Wohnen Mit Uns" in Vienna and Adaptibility to Turkey

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  • Hatice Kalfaoglu Hatipoglu

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15320/ICONARP.2017.19

Keywords:

Social Sustainability, housing quality, housing evaluation, housing design

Abstract

The aim of this research paper is to contribute to the design of socially sustainable housing by discussing the significance of social sustainability and assessing this quality according to the determined criterias of social sustainability.

There is a massive construction industry in Turkey, most of which is in the housing sector. These residential areas generally have been built as chaotic mass productions and lack a vision related to social quality.  Today, there are significant problems confronting the building sector, such as globalisation, industrialisation, the imbalance between nature and humanity. These problems determine the quality of life we will have in the future. The intention of this paper is to demonstrate more socially orientated housing design, especially in countries such as Turkey in which this aspect is not a real concern in the housing practice according to the perception of author, especially in comparison to Europe.

İn order to achieve this goal, this paper first points out the importance of social sustainability in housing within architectural quality. The description and necessity of social sustainability in multi-unit housing have been discussed and the criteria have been determined to evaluate the quality of social sustainability.

An award-winning project in Austria has been chosen as a case study to analyse and perceive social sustainability in residential areas, according to the described criteria. These criteria for assessment and the concrete case study including the emerging phase of the project background provide a guideline for developing housing projects towards social quality in Turkey.

In conclusion a general evaluation of the success of the case study with its background and applicability of this concept to Turkish housing which is used by middle-class has been discussed. 

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Author Biography

Hatice Kalfaoglu Hatipoglu

Hatice Kalfaoglu Hatipoglu works at Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University, Department of Architecture, as an Asst. Prof. She got her B. Sc. and MSc (as Dipl. Ing) degrees at Faculty of Architecture and Planning at Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria in 2008. She also obtained her PhD degree in Architecture and Planning from Vienna University of Technology. She worked as an intern in architecture offices Coop Himmelblau in Vienna and Mimarlar in Turkey. She worked as an architect and a designer in BG4 Architects, Zauhenberger Architecture Office and Espace Design & Visualisation Company in Austria. Her current research interests are housing design quality and sustainability.

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30-06-2017

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Kalfaoglu Hatipoglu, H. (2017). Understanding Social Sustainability in Housing Form the Case Study "Wohnen Mit Uns" in Vienna and Adaptibility to Turkey. ICONARP International Journal of Architecture and Planning, 5(1), 87–109. https://doi.org/10.15320/ICONARP.2017.19

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