Resilience in architecture: housing as a process

Abstract

This work starts with a hypothesis that housing design process can be an open system, whose resilience becomes positive when it is understood as a process with multiple agents, among one of them is the architect. Current housing production presents inadequacies and flexibility problems that bring this system to an unbalanced situation, which makes it more difficult for people to modify the space they live. This work aims to identify if and how the insertion of other architectural strategies in housing production could foster its resilience. In order to reach this objective, this research uses an explanatory approach based on a literature review on the theme and case studies. Firstly, the concepts of system and resilience are explored under approaches that cover the reductionist and the systemic paradigm. After that, some discussions regarding housing and counter-hegemonic practices are presented. Finally, selected case studies are analysed from the perspective of the resilience characteristics in order to verify if they develop the concept of housing as a continuous process. The results enforce the need for shifting the emphasis of current housing schemes to a new configuration of dynamic balance and highlight the role of open and informational processes to achieve this goal.

Resilient House: Self Modification to Create Creative Space during Online-Learning

“…The relationship between a residence and its surroundings, as well as between people and space is sometimes presented in stressful situations, such as changing plans to change spaces to accommodate new spaces, and even the need to relocate from an area due to a disaster or urban redevelopment. In that sense, the notion of resilience takes into account the ability of citizen groups to cope with collapse [4]. It can be realized that one of resilience characteristic, which is coping behaviour towards changes in the need for additional space.…”

“…Resilience uses characteristics of adaptation, learning and self-organization to deal with unpredictability [5] in [4]. This statement indicates that self-organization by the users is parameter of resiliency, after they have successfully cope with certain conditions.…”

“…This statement indicates that self-organization by the users is parameter of resiliency, after they have successfully cope with certain conditions. Paulichen [4] consider current housing production presents inadequacies and flexibility problems that bring this system to an unbalanced situation, which makes it more difficult for people to modify the space they live. The degree of flexibility is determined by opportunity for adaptability, defined as 'capable of different social uses' for example by adding several activities in one room and changing function of a room, and the opportunity for flexibility, defined as 'capable of different physical arrangements' for example by reorganizing furniture and adding partition element on a room [6].…”

“…The degree of flexibility is determined by opportunity for adaptability, defined as 'capable of different social uses' for example by adding several activities in one room and changing function of a room, and the opportunity for flexibility, defined as 'capable of different physical arrangements' for example by reorganizing furniture and adding partition element on a room [6]. Practices in the built environment are relationships in dynamic systems can contribute to its general resilience if the focus happens on the process of self-organization rather than the final product [4]. Based on this opinion, to create a resilient house are need the ability of the house to offer various possibility arrangements and various probability activities in one room.…”

Review of Design of Collective Housing in the 21st Century

“…From this perspective we can identify the areas of spatial and constructive innovation that have reconfigured the panorama of contemporary collective housing. Studies on compact habitat, flexibility, or new typological models deserve special attention [21][22][23][24][25], but also academic works that evaluate the capacity of new technologies to intervene in design and production processes [26][27][28][29][30][31]. From this perspective, this article emphasizes typological studies and trends towards distributed dwellings heirs of the mat-building model defined by Alison Smithson [32,33].…”