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- Braide, Anna, 1964
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Adaptability of apartments- A bottom up concern: Two narratives of life course spatial adaptability
- 2020
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Ingår i: Architecture for Residential Care and Ageing Communities: Spaces for Dwelling and Healthcare. - New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. : Routledge. ; , s. 65-77
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The ongoing demographic transformation calls for dwelling solutions with a wide capacity to host diverse dwelling needs for the present as well as for the future. Adaptable apartments can, in this context, be one step towards more sustainable design solutions, but adaptable design solutions have a relatively small role in the current Swedish dwelling design context. Focus is instead on function-defined rooms and rational and small apartments, with a “mobility with changed spatial needs” concept, where the household is expected to move when the living situation changes. The direction taken today towards small rational apartments is well motivated as it promotes affordable dwellings, but critical social qualities are at the same time endangered. The research findings presented in this chapter, based on a qualitative interview study, show that adaptable space can provide vital support in family life course processes. It enables people to remain in their neighborhood and to preserve valuable social qualities. It can also increase the opportunities to exercise more influence over the planning and future transformation of a household’s living situation. But what can be regarded as more extraordinary is the household’s strong incentive to stay in the apartment and use the space available in whatever way they can to adapt it to their changing spatial needs. Adaptable dwelling space becomes a bottom-up concern not sufficiently attended to by residential design practice.
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- Braide, Anna, 1964, et al.
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Debatt – Hög tid för socialt bostadsbyggande.
- 2017
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Ingår i: Tidskriften Plan - Planering av stad och land.. - 0032-0560. ; :2017/4, s. 46-47
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Braide, Anna, 1964
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Dwelling in time: Studies on life course spatial adaptability
- 2019
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The ongoing demographic transformation entails profound changes in population structures and implies constantly renewed needs and requests for different apartment space configurations. This challenges the field of design and calls for more adequate apartment solutions for a sustainable urban future. However, current design does not meet this challenge. Rather it imposes a conventional attitude as furthermore the housing market, dominated by a commercialized lifestyle focus, appears to ignore the question of long-term resilience. This dictates conditions for residential quality of life, in particular regarding issues of social sustainability, as households often lack the possibility to adapt their homes according to every day needs and long-term life project aspirations. The situation calls for an urgent future realization of a more resilient housing stock. The thesis addresses the issue of adaptable apartment space and how this can respond to the household’s changing spatial needs within an extended life course frame. The aim has been to investigate social dimensions of housing conditions and how adaptability can contribute to enhanced sustainability. The methodological approach consists of a qualitative research using a mix of methods, with empirical studies of living situations combined with research by design in the master studio MPARC Housing Invention. The empirical studies consist of enquiries and observations on consecutive dwelling situations effectuated throughout extensive interviews and floor plan registrations. The master studio design work has provided investigations of adaptable apartment design projects of multi-family residential buildings. The research has been part of the transdisciplinary knowledge platform Positive Footprint Housinginitiated by Riksbyggen EF, where in parallel the experimental housing project brf Viva has been unfolded, enabling a full-scale research on solutions of adaptable apartments. The research findings show that adaptable space can provide vital support in family life course processes. It enables people to remain in their neighbourhood and to preserve valuable social qualities. It can also increase the possibilities to exercise power over the planning and future transformation of a household’s living situation. Spatial adaptability is thus found to be a neglected but most relevant factor for the future design of sustainable apartments.
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- Braide, Anna, 1964
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Housing Inventions 2012, social hållbarhet och bostadsutformning, Positive Footprint Housing
- 2012
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Rapporten innehåller en sammanställning av studentprojekt från masterstudion Housing Inventions 2012, Institutionen för Arkitektur, Chalmers tekniska högskola. Arbetet i studion utgör en del av ett licentiatarbete, som är en del av Positive Footprint Housing projektet, ett forskningsprojekt med fokus på hållbara bostadslösningar som är ett samarbete mellan bla. Riksbyggen, Göteborgs Universitet, Johannebergs Science park och Chalmers tekniska högskola. Studenterna i studion har arbetat med frågor om social hållbarhet i en bostadskontext. Rapporten sammanställer delar av de frågeställningar som tagits upp under studioarbetet och presenterar studentprojekten.
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- Braide, Anna, 1964
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Housing Inventions 2013, Social hållbarhet och bostadsutformning, Positive Footprint Housing
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Rapporten innehåller en sammanställning av studentprojekt från masterstudion Housing Inventions 2013, Institutionen för Arkitektur, Chalmers tekniska högskola. Arbetet i studion utgör en del av ett licentiatarbete, som är en del av Positive Footprint Housing projektet, ett forskningsprojekt med fokus på hållbara bostadslösningar som är ett samarbete mellan bla. Riksbyggen, Göteborgs Universitet, Johannebergs Science park och Chalmers tekniska högskola. Studenterna i studion har arbetat med frågor om social hållbarhet i en bostadskontext. Rapporten sammanställer delar av de frågeställningar som tagits upp under studioarbetet och presenterar studentprojekten.
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- Braide, Anna, 1964
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Residential design affecting dimensions of equity
- 2016
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Ingår i: The book of proceedings of SUSTAINABLE HOUSING 2016 - International Conference on Sustainable Housing Planning, Management and Usability (e-Book). - 9789898734211
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- ABSTRACT: In Sweden social sustainability perspectives on housing design are rare, this strikes the group of weaker households. Due to the present housing shortage a dwelling providing a qualitative space for every-day life is not a realistic alternative for many households. The groups of households that not have the economical strength to involve in the housing market have little power to change their residential situation. The housing market focus on the limited group of buyers and the alternative, the rental apartment, implies years of abeyance in a que-system to get hold of an apartment. Meanwhile the on going demographic transformation challenges existing residential design and the design practice in turn tends to employ a narrow perspective on household constructions and residential use. The research work is focused on residential usability (flexibility) and how this can affect social sustainability dimensions in a residential situation. It also focuses on how social sustainability issues can be activated into the practice of residential floor plan design. The methodological approach is based on a mixed method research where qualitative, empirical studies and research by design are employed. The work embrace a theoretical perspective based on assumptions from Schneider and Till. Findings from the research show that flexibility in residential design represents an important factor in the realisation of a sustainable society. A salient finding is that flexible space can provide more equitable residential solutions as the extended spatial capacity can provide qualitative residential situations for diverse households during a residential process. This paper concentrates on the magnitude of flexible space as an agent for the dimension of equity, presenting parts of the work with empirical studies. The continuing research intends to delve deeper into the question of residential usability and social sustainability from the perspective of time and the residential process.
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- Braide, Anna, 1964
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Residential usability and social sustainability, Towards a paradigm shift within housing design?
- 2016
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Licentiatavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- ABSTRACTThe ongoing demographic transformation poses challenges for the field of residential design. Meanwhile rules and regulations maintain a conventional approach to the subject. The housing market is considering the home as a commercialized lifestyle question, not focusing on the long-term residential resilience of the housing stock. These preconditions imply a misfit between accelerating diversity in articulated consumer preferences and appropriate offers in the housing market. This situation impacts the quality of life in housing, in particular regarding issues of social sustainability. In order to obtain a sustainable housing stock we need to develop a new focus and new perspectives for the design professions. This study constitutes a part of a larger research and development experimental project, the Positive Footprint Housing project. This licentiate thesis concentrates on the notion of residential usability and how it relates to aspects of social sustainability. It also focuses on how these issues can be incorporated into the practice of residential design. The mixed methodological approach is based on the combination of studies of residential life situations with non-directed interviews and research by design in master studios. The work adopts a theoretical perspective presented by Schneider and Till and tests the hypothesis of residential usability as a critical precondition for socially sustainable residential processes. Findings from the research show that enhanced usability in residential design represents an important factor in the realisation of a sustainable society. A main result is the elaboration of a model for implementing social sustainability aspects in the design work in order to promote future housing design innovations. Further research intends to address the complexity of residential user participation and accompanying social consequences.Keywords: residential design, residential usability, flexibility, adaptability, alterability, social sustainability, residential process, user participation, demographic transformation
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