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Eloy, S. & Vermaas, P. (2017). Over-the-counter housing design: the city when the gap between architects and laypersons narrows. In SPT 2017: The Grammar of Things.

S. E. Rodrigues and P. E. Vermaas,  "Over-the-counter housing design: the city when the gap between architects and laypersons narrows", in SPT 2017: The Grammar of Things, 2017

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TY  - CPAPER
TI  - Over-the-counter housing design: the city when the gap between architects and laypersons narrows
T2  - SPT 2017: The Grammar of Things
AU  - Eloy, S.
AU  - Vermaas, P.
PY  - 2017
AB  - The aim of this paper is to focus on the impact that new automatic architecture design systems may have on the buildings’ refurbishment dynamic in the city. We argue that this impact consists of increases in the architectural quality of housing and in the social and ecological sustainable renewal of cities. European cities are faced with stocks of housing from the past centuries that do not respond to contemporary ways of living. For the required modernisation of these stocks three general options are available: inhabitants making small improvements to their housing, large-scale centralised refurbishment, and new construction after demolishment. These options all have their disadvantages. Improvements by owners may lack architectural quality, say it may undermine structural integrity of buildings 
when whole walls are demolished. Centralised modernisation imposes a homogeneity on the 
refurbished buildings that may disrupt the social fabric in neighbourhoods by chasing away 
the original inhabitants. Modernisation by demolishing is increasingly recognised 
in architecture as ecological unsustainable by its use of energy and other resources. 
ER  -