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Housing: TOPIC: Lecture 2 (Main Definitions, Housing Dimensions, Objectives & Challenges)

This document provides a summary of a university lecture on housing. It defines key terms like shelter, dwelling, and housing. It outlines the main dimensions of housing as being multi-factorial including political, economic, social and individual well-being. The objectives of housing are described as meeting human, territorial, privacy, accessibility, and psychological needs. Challenges to housing are qualitative issues around quality and quantitative economic problems in urban areas. The next lecture will cover site planning and neighborhood elements.

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Housing: TOPIC: Lecture 2 (Main Definitions, Housing Dimensions, Objectives & Challenges)

This document provides a summary of a university lecture on housing. It defines key terms like shelter, dwelling, and housing. It outlines the main dimensions of housing as being multi-factorial including political, economic, social and individual well-being. The objectives of housing are described as meeting human, territorial, privacy, accessibility, and psychological needs. Challenges to housing are qualitative issues around quality and quantitative economic problems in urban areas. The next lecture will cover site planning and neighborhood elements.

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TISHK INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE

Housing
TOPIC: Lecture 2

(Main Definitions, Housing Dimensions,


Objectives & Challenges)
4th Grade- Fall Semester 2020
Instructor: Muhammad Rojnamachy
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Lecture Content

1- Main Definitions.
1-1 Shelter
1-2 Dwelling
1-3 Housing
2- Housing Dimensions.
3- Housing Objectives
4- Housing Challenges

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1-Main Definitions :
1-1 Shelter :
A space which provides protections
to people from environmental
conditions with out infrastructure,
social service, privacy and
aesthetics characters.

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1-Main Definitions :
1-2 Dwelling :

Means the space which can


meet and absorb:
- Activities
- Life needs
- Privacy and Independence
- Constructions
- Services
- Facilities
- Instruments
- Natural health
For that:
-The dwelling is the architectural
environment for strengthening relations
between the family members and community.
-The dwelling is not a shelter; it means
shelter in additions to facilities as:
- Relations –Privacy-Special activities-Safety
–Hopes- Dreams-Thinking-Entertainment-
Stability

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1-Main Definitions :
1-3 Housing :
- is the science or policy of
integrated system consist of land,
dwellings, social and technical
infrastructure services.
- It appeared as a result of the whole
destruction that happened due to
the first world war.
- Architectural view of a house is a
free-standing dwelling with living
space for one family unit; in
classification terms it is called a one-
family house or single-family house.
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2- Housing Dimensions :
- Van Wyk (2009) defined housing as a multi-
dimensional activity as:…
“an instrument for Political stability,
-Economic prosperity,
-Social welfare and –
household well-being and
an economic, physical product, which requires
various parallel and consecutive processes,
services, suitable resources and relevant
systems in order to create and maintain quality,
sustainable living environments for human
beings”
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3- Housing Objectives :
1- Human Objectives (Human
Needs):
It seeks to achieve human needs like
protection from the climate and outside
conditions.
-Social relations between individuals.
-Biological and Physiological needs.
-Achieve residential belonging.
2- Territoriality:
Make the person have his own place
without intrusion from others by building
physical barrier like a wall or natural like
trees or symbolical like fences, curtains.

3- Privacy :
It achieves privacy through designing the
roofs and windows of the dwelling in way
that attain visual and sound isolation.
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4- Accessibility:
It makes people
access to their jobs
and other daily
facilities and
services in less
time and cost
either for
pedestrian or by
car.
5- Psychological and Social comfortable for habitants.
- Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a
theory in psychology proposed by
Abraham Maslow in his 1943 paper
"A Theory of Human Motivation" in
Psychological Review.
- Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a
motivational theory in psychology
comprising a five-tier model
of human needs, often depicted as
hierarchical levels within a pyramid.
... From the bottom of the hierarchy
upwards, the needs are:
Physiological, Safety, Love and
Belonging, Esteem and Self-
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Actualization.
4-Housing Challenges
2- Territoriality:
e the person have his own place without
- Generally when analyzing
intrusion from others by building physical
the problems of Housing
barrier like a wall or natural like trees or
Sector in the Urban Areas,
symbolical like fences, curtains.
the key challenges
apparently are either
Qualitative; problems of
the houses quality of
structure, environment and
the socio-cultural value, or
Quantitative challenges, 3- Privacy :
i.e. economic problems.. It achieve privacy through designing the
roofs and windows of the dwelling in way
that attain visual and sound isolation.
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Next Lecture
Site Planning & Neighborhood Elements

1-Factors needed in Site Planning


2-Physical Site Characteristics
3-Buildable Qualities:
4-Planning Standards for Housing
5-Planning Indicators

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Thank you

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