REVIEWER
REVIEWER
REVIEWER
1.1. INTRODUCTION
HOUSING- generally living spaces
• Refers to the construction and assigned usage of houses or buildings
collectively.
• Purpose: sheltering people
• Ensuring that members of society have a home in which to live
• Whether this is a house, or some other kind of dwelling, lodging, or shelter
• Many governments have one of more housing authorities sometimes also called a
housing ministry or housing department
• In the limited area of architectural theory particular to housing, type provides the
most pervasive intellectual and practical framework.
TYPE
• Generic form of housing, replicated across cities, countries, and epochs
• Widely understood, although their origins are sometimes lost in history and culture.
APARTMENT TYPES:
• Tower • Walk-up
• Slab • Courtyard
• Street wall • Gallery access
APARTMENT BUILDINGS:
• Determined by the relationship to the street and lot boundaries
• The footprints related to the lot
• The passage from the street through the vertical and horizontal common circulation
to the dwelling
• The number and distribution of dwellings in relation to the common and exterior
spaces and the section.
HIGH DENSITY
-is often concentrated along main roads and local centers, preserving the majority
of high amenity land for low-density individual houses. Many opportunities exist for
higher density housing across the middle ring of suburbia.
• By contrast, in multiple housing, future residents are unknown and more prone to
clump over the building, have extended life.
• Clients for such housing, tend to be agents, not the future occupiers: developer,
speculator, builder, lender, marketer, variously from private, institutional or
public sectors.
• In apartment buildings, areas tend to tighter, relationships to the outside more
concise, sections usually a repeated stack.
• Housing contains common as well as private spaces entry, stair, lift, gardens,
carparks, utilities and occasionally roof terraces.
INFORMAL HOUSING
The magnitude of the housing need (defined as the backlog plus new household)
is staggering and has been estimated to reach more than 3.7 million in 2010. In
Metro Manila alone, the total backlog (to include new household) has been
projected to reach close to 500, 000 units.
• Addressing the backlog will roughly require about three thousand hectares of land
if designed to accommodate detached housing units, a prospect that suggest the
need for a higher density housing strategy if the housing defined as to be effectively
addressed.
• Beyond the provisions of housing by the public sectors, new approaches are
needed especially, since rural-urban migration is expected to continue and will
exacerbate the housing problem.
HOMELESS
• In cities of industrial countries, the numbers of homeless people have increased,
and their existence has become a social problem since 1980s.
• in cities of developing countries, the numbers of street homeless who cannot live
even in squatters’ area have increased since the end of 1990s
• these people face serious problems in surviving on the streets. Ther are an urban
minority deprived of human rights and excluded from society.
• However, the program of the street has not yet been constructed as social problem
in developing countries because it is overwhelmed by the large-scale squatter
problem. The street homeless have been regarded as part of the squatters
homeless.
1.2.4. HOUSING AND THE GOVERNMENT AND ITS DELIVERY PROCESS SYSTEM
• A. To undertake social housing programs that will cater to the formal and informal
sectors in the low-income bracket.
• B. To take charge of developing and administering social housing program
particularly the community mortgage Program (CMP) and the ABOT-KAYA
PABAHAY FUND (AKPF) Program.