Resilience in social housing developments through post-occupancy evaluation and co-production

Abstract

The poor initial resilience of the ground-breaking Brazilian urban social housing programme ‘Minha Casa, Minha Vida’(MCMV) affects millions of people, who have tried to adapt their homes, survived the unexpected and have to reinvent themselves constantly. This study delimits the elements that compose the concept of resilience, namely: the impacts, vulnerabilities and adaptive capacities that characterize the resilience of the built environment in the case study selected. To achieve these aims, advanced Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) and Co-production techniques have been applied in the case study of a typical Brazilian MCMV development in Uberlandia (Brazil). The results highlighted factors going beyond the typical vulnerabilities already seen in most of these developments. They pointed out the adaptive recovery capacities as key factors for resilience. This case study provides the means to investigate resilience and its variables in depth within the specific context of MCMV’s social housing, subsidising designers and public policies makers in the elaboration of more resilient projects for these social housing communities.

Innovating digital POE platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic: A case study of co-production in Brazilian social housing

“…The research aimed to understand how each of these elements of practice and its relationship with social and environmental aspects affect the management of the built environment in social housing. From the Frontiers in Built Environment frontiersin.org researchers' previous observations of the housing practices that most favor dengue proliferation in the case study (Garrefa et al, 2021a;Garrefa et al, 2021b;Villa et al, 2017), some categories of practice analysis were proposed, namely, periodic maintenance in the house and its subsystems, cleaning of the houses (lot + sidewalk + unit), the destination of solid waste, and an effective fight against dengue. The categorization of these four occupant archetypes based on practice theory and observation, revealed a pattern of relationships between the individual and the management of the built environment in their homes, providing an important and reliable understanding of individual practices and reflections on their impacts on the proliferation of dengue among residents during the subsequent steps.…”

Housing transformations and their impacts on the well-being of dwellers

“…Construction waste is associated with transformation actions. A cycle whereby building, demolishing, and rebuilding takes place is evident in many of the cases studied (GARREFA et al, 2021;HORONGOSO;BOGO, 2018;JORGE et al, 2017;SOARES et al, 2014). For multi-storey, multifamily SH, the desire for more space also exists, not able to be fulfilled, except for ground floor apartments in special cases.…”

“…Over the last fifty years, research has shown an interest in the changes introduced to houses, as self-initiated actions or as official refurbishment programmes of Social Housing (SH). Concepts associated with the transformation phenomenon are flexibility, adaptability, metamorphosis, evolution, and resilience (GARREFA et al, 2021).…”