'Residential change - the potential of common and private spaces’
Housing in Change is a 2 year research project (2020-2022) funded by YH Kodit housing foundation and YH Kodit housing company - Key researchers are Katja Maununaho, Tapio Kaasalainen, Sini Saarimaa and Elina Luotonen with Jyrki Tarpio and Sofie Pelsmakers. More project information here and summary below in Finnish and further below in English.
ASUMINEN MUUTOKSESSA
English text further below.
Isot yhteiskunnalliset, väestölliset ja ympäristölliset muutokset vaikuttavat tällä hetkellä merkittävällä tavalla asuinympäristöön kohdistuviin tarpeisiin.
Kaupungistuminen ja ilmastomuutokseen kohdennettu ekologinen tehokkuus vaativat yhtäältä yhä tiiviimpää kaupunkirakennetta, asettaen ympäristön toiminnallisuuden ja viihtyisyyden haasteen alle. Toisaalta perherakenteen muutokset ja ikääntyminen lisäävät ympäristöön kohdentuvan sosiaalisen tuen ja kontaktien tarvetta. Lisäksi työelämän muutokset, kuten pätkätyösuhteiden, itsensä työllistämisen ja etätyön lisääntyminen vaikuttavat siihen, miten asuinympäristön tiloja ja palveluita käytetään.
Kaikki nämä tekijät muodostavat uudenlaista jännitettä asumiseen liittyvien yksityisyyden ja yhteisöllisyyden ratkaisuiden välille. Asuminen muutoksessa -hanke paneutuu siihen, miten asuinympäristö vastaa tässä muuttuvassa tilanteessa asukkaidensa tarpeisiin kokonaisvaltaisella tavalla.
Hanke muodostuu kahdesta osasta.
Jaetut tilat sosiaalisena infrastruktuurina (hanke 1) keskittyy asuinrakennusten jaettujen tilojen ominaisuuksiin sekä siihen millaisia tilallis-toiminnallisia kokonaisuuksia niistä muodostuu naapuruston tasolla tarkasteltuna.
Asuinympäristön jaetut tilat vaikuttavat naapuruston mahdollisuuksiin muodostaa yhteisöllisyyttä ja sosiaalista tukea. Tätä kautta ympäristöllä on merkittävä vaikutus ihmisten hyvinvointiin, terveyteen ja toimintakykyyn. Oletamme, että tilojen tarkastelu yksittäistä asuinrakennusta laajemmin naapuruston tasolla avaa uusia näkökulmia tilojen potentiaaliin ja mahdollistaa vajaakäyttöisten tilojen aktivointia naapuruston yhteisöllisyyden eduksi.
Yksityisten asuintilojen osalta Asuinkerrostalot ajassa mukautuvina aihioina (hanke 2) tarkastelee puolestaan kerrostaloasuntojen mukautumispotentiaalia, eli sitä miten asunnot pystyvät vastaamaan asukkaidensa muuttuviin tarpeisiin.
Potentiaali mukautua ei liity pelkästään sellaisiin asuntoihin, jotka on alun perin suunniteltu joustaviksi. Myös normaalista asuntokannasta löytyy tekijöitä, jotka edesauttavat asuntojen kykyä mukautua niiden käytön ja toimintaympäristön muutoksiin.
Hankkeen aineistona toimii YH Kotien koko kerrostaloasuntokanta, niiden asunnot ja jaetut tilat sekä tarkemmassa tarkastelussa myös naapurustot, joissa kohteet sijaitsevat.
Tutkimuksen ensimmäisessä vaiheessa olemme käyneet tätä kantaa läpi ja muodostaneet kriteeristön, jonka perusteella olemme tyypitelleet kohteita ryhmiin, ja valinneet ryhmistä 10 koko kiinteistökantaa hyvin edustavaa kohdetta tarkempaan analyysiin. Seuraavassa vaiheessa tarkoituksena on tutustua tarkemmin näihin kohteisiin, ja niiden tilallisiin ja sosiaalisiin piirteisiin asukkaiden arkielämän näkökulmasta.
Tutkimus toteutetaan vuosien 2020–2021 aikana Tampereen Yliopiston ASUTUT Kestävän asuntoarkkitehtuurin tutkimusryhmän toimesta, YH Kodit Oy:n ja Länsi-Suomen Yleishyödyllinen Asuntosäätiön rahoittamana.
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HOUSING IN CHANGE
Major social, demographic and environmental changes are currently having a significant impact on the needs of the living environment.
On the one hand, urbanization and ecological efficiency focused on climate change require an increasingly dense urban structure, challenging the functionality and comfort of the environment. On the other hand, changes in family structure and ageing increases the need for targeted social support and contact. In addition, changes in working life, such as the increase in part-time employment, self-employment and teleworking all affect the use of living space facilities and services.
All of these factors create a new kind of tension between housing-related privacy and community solutions. The Housing in Change project focuses on how the living environment responds to the needs of its residents in a holistic way in this changing situation. The project consists of two parts:
Shared spaces as social infrastructure (project 1) focuses on the characteristics of shared spaces in residential buildings and what kind of spatial-functional entities they form when viewed at the neighbourhood level.
Shared living spaces affect the neighbourhood’s ability to form community and social support. Through this, the environment has a significant impact on human well-being, health and functional capacity. We hypothesize that looking at facilities more broadly than individual residential buildings at the neighbourhood level opens up new perspectives on the potential of the facilities and enables the activation of vacant facilities for the benefit of the neighbourhood community.
With regard to private dwellings, we investigate dwelling blocks as adaptable over time (project 2) to examine the adaptive potential of blocks of flats, i.e. how dwellings are able to meet the changing needs of their residents. The potential to adapt is not limited to dwellings that were originally designed to be flexible. There are also factors in the normal housing stock that contribute to the ability of dwellings to adapt to changes in their use and operating environment. The material of the project is the entire apartment building stock of YH Kodit housing company, their apartments and shared premises, and in a closer examination also the Neighbourhoods where the properties are located.
In the first phase of the study, we reviewed the housing stock and formed criteria on the basis of which we have defined the buildings into groups, and selected from these groups 10 blocks that are representative of the entire property stock for further analysis. The next step is to learn more about these sites, and their spatial and social features from the perspective of residents ’daily lives.
The study will be carried out during 2020–2021 by the University of Tampere ASUTUT Sustainable Housing Architecture Research Group, funded by YH Kodit Oy and the Western Finland Public Benefit Housing Foundation.
On the one hand, urbanization and ecological efficiency focused on climate change require an increasingly dense urban structure, challenging the functionality and comfort of the environment. On the other hand, changes in family structure and ageing increases the need for targeted social support and contact. In addition, changes in working life, such as the increase in part-time employment, self-employment and teleworking all affect the use of living space facilities and services.
All of these factors create a new kind of tension between housing-related privacy and community solutions. The Housing in Change project focuses on how the living environment responds to the needs of its residents in a holistic way in this changing situation. The project consists of two parts:
Shared spaces as social infrastructure (project 1) focuses on the characteristics of shared spaces in residential buildings and what kind of spatial-functional entities they form when viewed at the neighbourhood level.
Shared living spaces affect the neighbourhood’s ability to form community and social support. Through this, the environment has a significant impact on human well-being, health and functional capacity. We hypothesize that looking at facilities more broadly than individual residential buildings at the neighbourhood level opens up new perspectives on the potential of the facilities and enables the activation of vacant facilities for the benefit of the neighbourhood community.
With regard to private dwellings, we investigate dwelling blocks as adaptable over time (project 2) to examine the adaptive potential of blocks of flats, i.e. how dwellings are able to meet the changing needs of their residents. The potential to adapt is not limited to dwellings that were originally designed to be flexible. There are also factors in the normal housing stock that contribute to the ability of dwellings to adapt to changes in their use and operating environment. The material of the project is the entire apartment building stock of YH Kodit housing company, their apartments and shared premises, and in a closer examination also the Neighbourhoods where the properties are located.
In the first phase of the study, we reviewed the housing stock and formed criteria on the basis of which we have defined the buildings into groups, and selected from these groups 10 blocks that are representative of the entire property stock for further analysis. The next step is to learn more about these sites, and their spatial and social features from the perspective of residents ’daily lives.
The study will be carried out during 2020–2021 by the University of Tampere ASUTUT Sustainable Housing Architecture Research Group, funded by YH Kodit Oy and the Western Finland Public Benefit Housing Foundation.
