Incremental design changes in social housing and its effects on residents' attitudes

摘要

This paper identifies spatial transformations of detached houses, characterized by additions to dwelling size, and examines residents' feelings about dwelling size and functions as consequence of these changes. Five main patterns are identified in three samples consisting of: three and two bedrooms detached houses in IAPI housing estate, and of two bedrooms detached houses in Vila Farrapos estate, for low-middle income people in southern Brazil. Data collection was made by means of physical measurements, questionnaires and informal interviews. Statistical analysis was conducted, for example, to reveal correlations between some of the aspects investigated and statistically significantly differences between the categories of patterns of spatial transformations of detached houses. Some of the main results reveal the effect of lot size on spatial transformations, considering number and type of spaces, and on residents' feelings. Moreover, spatial transformations tended to be less stable in the number of rooms than in the type of new spaces, design changes, social housing, residents' attitudes.