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Examination of Interventions and Defects on Façades: The Case of Selamsız Low-Cost Mass Housing in Istanbul, Türkiye

open access: yesJournal of Architectural Sciences and Applications, 2023
Conservation of 20th century mass housing is discussed considering their heritage value. On the other hand, intervention might be required since they do not meet the today’s requirements and defect might have occurred.
N. Volkan Gür, Hatice Yasemin Çakır
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Adaptable Housing Through the Example of the Birds’ Harbor Neighborhood Development in Irkutsk

open access: yesПроект Байкал, 2020
The article analyses specific aspects of contemporary mass housing and the means of its adaptation to mobility needs of the residents. It underlines the interrelation between volumetric and spatial characteristics of buildings and functional ...
Inna Druzhinina, Anastasia Kholyavko
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Prefab Russia

open access: yesDocomomo Journal, 2022
A classic view of mass housing apartments is shown on Russian television every New Year's Eve. In Eldar Ryazanov's 1975 movie lroniya sud'by (Irony of Fate), a man wakes up in what he believes to be his bedroom and suddenly finds himself surrounded by ...
Florian Urban
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A ‘RELATION BETWEEN RELATIONS’: SOCIALIST MASS HOUSING AND RESIDENTIAL TOWERS OF VOJVODE STEPE BOULEVARD, BELGRADE, SERBIA

open access: yesFacta Universitatis. Series: Architecture and Civil Engineering, 2023
This paper investigates the residential towers of Block 10 in Vojvode Stepe Boulevard, Belgrade, Serbia. The two towers (buildings no. 39 and 40) were initially designed by Branko Aleksić in 1969 and re-designed three years later by Aleksić and his co ...
Aleksandar Kušić
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A model for mass customization and flexibility in mass housing units

open access: yesOpen House International, 2021
Purpose This paper aims to present a mass customization model for interior spaces of mass housing projects to provide solutions that will increase flexibility in accordance with different user needs. Design/methodology/approach The research project develops a model that generates an expert system that leads to different spatial variations.
Garip, Ervin   +2 more
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Evaluation of mass housing settlements in terms of wind and noise control: Istanbul and Diyarbakir as a case

open access: yesJournal of Environmental Engineering and Landscape Management, 2017
In mass housing apartments, the comfort and quality of living conditions may be adversely affected by wind and noise especially on balconies, terraces, gardens and around swimming pools etc.
Gülay Zorer Gedik   +4 more
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Evaluation & Criticism

open access: yesDocomomo Journal, 2023
The COST-Action (CA 18137) on Middle Class Mass Housing in Europe (MCMH-EU) has established a transnational scientific network to document the productions of middle-class mass housing built in Europe since the 1950s in order to investigate this specific
Ahmed Benbernou   +5 more
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Housing and Tuberculosis in a Mass Radiography Survey [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Epidemiology & Community Health, 1957
This study is concerned with the specific associa tion of housing conditions with the prevalence of tuberculosis as found in a 3-year survey by a static Mass Radiography Unit in the Metropolitan Borough of Islington (Brett, Benjamin, Craig, Wallace, and Freeman, 1956). It does not attempt to examine this association from the point of view of the spread
G Z, BRETT, B, BENJAMIN
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The inter-tier spread of housing bubbles: are luxury markets to blame?

open access: yesInternational Journal of Strategic Property Management, 2021
Understanding the spread of asset bubbles is pivotal to the effectiveness of risk management. This study thus estimates housing bubbles and investigates how and to what extent price bubbles spread between the tiers of luxury and mass housing in Hong Kong.
Shew-Huei Kuo   +2 more
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CIAM Goes East: The Inception of Tehran’s Typical Housing Unit

open access: yesUrban Planning, 2019
The aftermath of WWII not only marked the beginning of a new geopolitical order but also once again brought discourses of architecture and planning back to the frontline of the confrontations between the West and the Soviet blocs.
Hamed Khosravi
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