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Self-Built Housing

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Self-built housing refers to residential structures constructed by individuals or communities, often utilizing their own labor and resources. This approach emphasizes personal involvement in the design and building process, allowing for customization and adaptation to specific needs, while often addressing issues of affordability and accessibility in housing.
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Self-built housing refers to residential structures constructed by individuals or communities, often utilizing their own labor and resources. This approach emphasizes personal involvement in the design and building process, allowing for customization and adaptation to specific needs, while often addressing issues of affordability and accessibility in housing.

Key research themes

1. How can self-building and incremental housing practices be effectively integrated with institutional housing policies to enhance affordability and user-centric customization?

This theme explores the intricate relationship between self-built and incremental housing practices and the broader institutional frameworks that govern housing provision. It emphasizes how governmental support, housing associations, and housing policies can enable or constrain self-building, especially for low- and middle-income households. The focus is on operationalizing resident-led housing strategies through commissioning roles, mass customization, and participatory processes within traditional and modern construction contexts. Understanding these linkages is crucial to leveraging self-building as a tool for affordable, socially inclusive, and adaptable housing solutions.

Key finding: This paper demonstrates that the Dutch institutional and regulatory conditions historically favor comprehensive consortia of municipalities, housing associations, and developers, creating systemic constraints for self-build... Read more
Key finding: Through an empirical study in Brazil, this article advances operational guidelines to implement mass customization in affordable housing projects that combine traditional construction techniques with customer integration. It... Read more
Key finding: Analyzing incremental housing initiatives in Chile, this work highlights the importance of government officials and architects providing comprehensive assistance to low-income self-builders, significantly enhancing user... Read more
Key finding: This historical analysis reveals that aided self-help housing policies, supported by various European and industrialized nations between 1918 and 1953, operated largely detached from political ideologies but were undermined... Read more

2. What design and technological innovations enable adaptable, sustainable, and user-responsive housing in self-built and mass-produced residential contexts?

This theme investigates how novel architectural and construction approaches—including modularity, mass customization, and adaptive typologies—facilitate responsive housing aligned with changing occupant needs and environmental imperatives. It encompasses innovations in flexible layouts, integration of technological systems, circular and biobased materials, and efficient off-site construction. The research underscores the role of design flexibility in enhancing affordability, sustainability, and quality of life, thus supporting self-building households and formal housing sectors alike in dynamic socio-economic conditions.

Key finding: Focusing on post-pandemic housing needs, this study analyzes architectural approaches to housing adaptability, exploring how technological integration and typological flexibility transform living spaces. It identifies... Read more
Key finding: This research proposes a design and delivery framework for national housing in the UAE emphasizing customization, environmental performance, and hybrid production integrating precast concrete and emerging fabrication... Read more
Key finding: Examining Finnish detached house practices, this paper elucidates how individually designed homes—contrasted with mass-produced type and package houses—achieve higher quality by leveraging architectural customization tailored... Read more

3. How do socio-political, historical, and community narratives influence self-built housing and informal settlement dynamics in urban peripheries?

This theme addresses the socio-ecological and political dimensions underpinning self-built housing and informal settlements, particularly in marginalized urban peripheries. It includes the historical evolution of aided self-help housing, community resistance to evictions, and the environmental impact of informal expansion. The research offers insights into how narratives of empowerment, socio-political struggle, and landscape transformation shape and are shaped by self-building practices, informing more inclusive policies and planning approaches that recognize residents’ agency and sustainment of livelihoods in precarious housing conditions.

Key finding: Through ethnographic narratives and participatory workshops, this study reveals how ephemeral everyday practices and self-built housing trajectories in São Paulo's periphery lead to persistent socio-ecological... Read more
Key finding: This article critiques prevailing discourse that marginalizes informal housing by focusing on single incidents rather than structural causes, arguing that such framing trivializes the lived realities and conditions forcing... Read more
Key finding: This historical investigation documents how self-built housing (afthereta) in 1970s Greece functioned as a hybrid form of architecture promoting modernization and private investment under U.S. and Greek anti-communist... Read more
Key finding: This comprehensive manual synthesizes a diversity of anti-eviction tactics across Central and Eastern Europe rooted in housing justice and anti-racist activism. It frames forced evictions as manifestations of capitalist... Read more

All papers in Self-Built Housing

This study examines how individuals living on the periphery of society have designed their own homes in a Hungarian locality without the help of architects, shedding light on the phenomenon of "architecture without architects" by... more
Αναγνωρίζοντας ότι η στεγαστική έλλειψη είναι ένα πρόβλημα μεγάλων διαστάσεων, διαχρονικό και περίπλοκο, που δημιουργεί ερωτήματα και αποζητά διαφορετικές λύσεις, με την ερευνητική αυτή θα αναλύσουμε τον τρόπο σχεδίασης της γειτονίας... more
Este artigo tem como objetivo compreender as realidades de moradia contempladas pelo PNHR buscando descrever a importância atribuida aos comodos da casa rural pelos moradores e em que medida o Programa se adequa a realidade das familias... more
Acerca del tamaño de los difusores, específicamente los traseros en los controles de estudios tipo LEDE de Davis. Nota de divulgación publicada en revista mensual del estudio Titanio.
O Nucleo de Orientacao para Sustentabilidade (NOS) e um projeto que busca integrar a investigacao sobre a sustentabilidade e a sociedade, unindo desta forma a pesquisa e a extensao. Atraves da implantacao de um escritorio modelo sera... more
história, arquitetura e links registros digitais e fontes de arquitetura na cidade do rio de janeiro history, architecture and links digital records and architecture sources in the city of rio de janeiro Maria cristina nascentes cabral |... more
His privileged field of investigation focuses on the relation between urban marginality and landscape processes in diverse contexts in Europe, Latin America and Middle East. Lucas is currently developing his PhD project "Socio-ecological... more
Housing designed for university students has emerged as a profitable market niche in various urban contexts. The concentration of private student residences in areas commonly referred to as "university towns" has been investigated from... more
This article critically examines the governing of ‘sustainable urban development’ through self‐build cohousing groups in Gothenburg and Hamburg. The two case cities have been selected because both are currently involved in major urban... more
Lima has become the first Peruvian megacity with more than 10 million people, resulting from the migration waves from the countryside throughout the 20th century, which have also contributed to the diverse ethnic background of today’s... more
Este artigo discute as tradições políticas vinculadas à esquerda que influenciam lutas urbanas contemporâneas, como as ocupações urbanas em Belo Horizonte desde os anos 2000. A atuação de técnicos junto às ocupações urbanas não é uma... more
El artículo expone, a través de un sujeto de estudio, la producción de un espacio comunitario que busca fortalecer la memoria y la cohesión comunitaria en el contexto del hábitat popular. Con un enfoque transgresivo, ubicado en la... more
Generative House is a collaborative exploration of advanced technologies for lower-and working-class housing carried out by industrial and academic partners in southern Brazil. It seeks to test generative procedures and digital... more
Este artigo discorre sobre a evolução arquitetônica e projetual das casas em Joinville-SC, no período de 1920 à 1960, com o objetivo de constatar as transformações e adaptações que ocorreram nas casas em relação ao modo de vida dos... more
Este artigo discorre sobre a evolução arquitetônica e projetual das casas em Joinville-SC, no período de 1920 à 1960, com o objetivo de constatar as transformações e adaptações que ocorreram nas casas em relação ao modo de vida dos... more
This research aimed to understand the housing context of university students residing in the city of Viçosa, in Minas Gerais, considering the characteristics of their living spaces and ways of living. This purpose guided a qualitative... more
In Nigeria, heat stress is responsible for significant health complications and loss of lives. Rising temperatures in the country are exacerbated by unbridled anthropogenic activities including deforestation, poor urban planning, and... more
Observacoes sobre os quintais da chamada zona norte carioca, seus usos e caracteristicas tradicionais em nossa cultura, alem de uma caracterizacao de sua ambiencia.
Lays Juliani Hespanhol 3 Resumo O artigo discute, a partir de revisão teórica, o habitar doméstico e seus aspectos de composição materiais e imateriais. Procura-se compreender os significados da palavra habitar, transcendendo o... more
O setor da construcao se depara diante um novo desafio: o desenvolvimento da moradia sustentavel. Isso significa introduzir no projeto a dimensao da sustentabilidade, no que se refere a criterios de selecao de materiais, tecnicas... more
A habitação de interesse social se caracteriza pela adoção de um projeto padrão de unidade habitacional repetido diversas vezes. Uma das consequências é que grande parte dos usuários para conciliar a unidade às suas necessidades espaciais... more
The city of Almere, which is one of the four main cities in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area, has been among the fastest growing cities in Europe ever since it establishment in 1976. The economic and demographic expansion puts significant... more
Resumo O projeto HABITAT de Ação Imediata em Viçosa /MG consiste em proporcionar orientação técnica às famílias carentes da cidade de Viçosa que recebem doação de materiais de construção pelo Programa de Melhoria Habitacional desenvolvido... more
Current debates in radical urban studies and comparative urbanism focus in part on the denunciation of universalisation in urban theories as an expression of Eurocentrism. Decolonial and postcolonial scholars risk rejecting general... more
A autoconstrução de moradias é uma prática comum no Brasil apresentam graus variados de aplicação de diretrizes e soluções visando ao atendimento das necessidades dos usuários quanto à rac salubridade, etc. Considerando o baixo acesso à... more
Land availability is increasingly limited, so it is not surprising that land prices are getting more expensive. However, behind the high cost of land, there is a lot of space, especially in settlements, in the form of vacant land,... more
Resumo O projeto HABITAT de Ação Imediata em Viçosa /MG consiste em proporcionar orientação técnica às famílias carentes da cidade de Viçosa que recebem doação de materiais de construção pelo Programa de Melhoria Habitacional desenvolvido... more
COLOMBO, Jonathan Marcos. Analysis of Adaptability Criteria in Projects Produced through the Minha Casa Minha Vida Program in the City of Pato Branco in the State of Paraná. 2016, 110 pág. Trabalho de Conclusão do Curso de Graduação em... more
e Marketing their environments; approaching the search for the central objective that is proportions more humanized housing.
O artigo aborda a transformação do espaço das cozinhas e seu projeto, em apartamentos residenciais urbanos com dois e três dormitórios, lançados pelo mercado imobiliário em São Paulo no período de 2000 a 2015. São problematizadas duas... more
Asieh Panahi died on May 19th, 2020 trying to protect her [informal] dwelling from demolition by the municipality. While the press focused on the homicide, relatively few took notice of the reasons leading to such an event. Officials and... more
As imensas necessidades habitacionais brasileiras evidenciam um grave problema social que pode ser classificado em dois componentes principais: o déficit habitacional e a inadequação habitacional. Neste componente estão inseridas as... more
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PLEA2006 - The 23rd Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture, Geneva, Switzerland, 6-8 September 2006 ... A sense of comfort in open space around owner-built ... Evandro Z. Monteiro, Mayra de Mattos Moreno, Silvia A. Mikami G.... more
This paper concerns how sustainable and low carbon living can be enabled in new housing developments in the UK. It is here recognized that consumption of energy and resources is not just what goes into the building, but also long-term... more
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Sistematização de estudos internacionais sobre o uso da variável tempo em tarefas domésticas, como referencial para projeto de produtos industrializados residenciais Systematization of international studies on the use of the time variable... more
Konstantina Kalfa, “Archives of Empowerment? Unearthing Afthereta’s Architectural Documentation in 1970s Greece,” PLATFORM, June 19, 2023
Este é um artigo de acesso aberto, licenciado por Creative Commons Atribuição 4.0 Internacional (CC BY 4.0), sendo permitidas reprodução, adaptação e distribuição desde que o autor e a fonte originais sejam creditados. Resumo Este texto é... more
Este trabalho consiste no estudo dos aspectos funcionais de habitações populares autoconstruídas, implantadas numa encosta da cidade de Maceió, capital do estado de Alagoas. É um estudo de caso de 5 habitações da favela Novo Horizonte, o... more
Este trabalho consiste no estudo dos aspectos funcionais de habitacoes populares autoconstruidas, implantadas numa encosta da cidade de Maceio, capital do estado de Alagoas. E um estudo de caso de 5 habitacoes da favela Novo Horizonte, o... more
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