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Social Housing Delivery - An Alternative Model





Urban sprawl, increasing traffic, provision of homes, jobs and infrastructure are common pertinent conditions require addressing if contemporary society is always to become sustainable. This short article reviews a job undertaken by UK architectural studio space workshops that seeks to educate yourself regarding these issues. Focussing upon the city of Gdansk, Poland housing is employed as a key medium in order to begin studying the related issues.

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Initial investigations in the target District - Wrzeszcz, which sits from the northern a part of Gdansk revealed that;

Poland gets the highest overcrowding rates in Europe among the population at risk of poverty - currently 64.9%. (EU27 eurostats).
The average floor area for a residence in Wrzeszcz in 50m.sq, yet around 30% with the available housing stock is occupied by a couple of families.
Given its population and housing deficit Gdansk needs to deliver 25 homes per week or 1300 12 months for the next 2 decades to get to know demand.
The Gdansk Government had $20,000,000 allocated in social housing subsidies for 2011 to build a targeted 700 homes.
700 homes divided by $20,000,000 enables up to $28,500 per home.
based on a normal price of construction at $900.00 per m.sq this equates to a property height and width of 31.5 m.sq - smaller than the currently unacceptable average of 50m.sq.
- However, merely to meet demand they have to build 1300 homes annually.

1300 homes divided by $20,000,000 enables $15,571 per home - due to the same average expense of construction of $900.00 per m.sq this compatible a house sized just 17m.sq.
The aforementioned highlighted the extent this agreement typical delivery means of social housing were unable to give a structure able to deliver the targeted amount of homes to the available funds. Areas of expense add the contractors construction costs. rising land values and developer profits (20% in the total construction costs).

From this the challenge was revealed; How you can provide 1300 quality family homes a year for the next Twenty years for ?15,571 each.

A PROPOSAL. According to a conventional delivery route the price of site alone exceeded the available funds per unit. Thus a different was proposed to challenge this delivery model - a delivery model that will should;

remove developer profit.
reduce construction costs per m.sq.
remove land value from the equation.
delivery housing effective at comfortably accommodating a growing family.
Firstly, a self build construction method was implemented in order to remove developer costs. Drawing inspiration through the work of folks including Walter Segal a sort of timber framing was developed as a possible easy, light material for basically trained future residents to work with. Standard length components were chosen throughout to stop cutting of materials, all joints are overlapping to get rid of the necessity for an advanced of accuracy in construction and all connections are produced using bolts and screws allowing simple fixings which are reversible afterwards if needed. Additionally, all component are of a human scale meaning no large machinery requiring skilled operation is essential on site through the build - even the dependence on concrete pouring is negated through taken into consideration (and sustainable) foundations.
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