The social housing advanced through the transformation of the local context

Social and local context stand in the vital point of developing models for social housing projects to achieve the goals for the integration of the community which transform the habitat. The local conditions existing in the town of St. Giorgio, lead the design through the thinking of a new type of community housing. The ambigious relationship of the older settlement and the newer ones within the town, the expansion of the town and the ineffecient functionality of the public spaces are the key points in a larger scale taken as basic questions in the beginning of the design process. The urban concept provided by these questions showed the general layout while the analysis of the resindential in the town opened the way for morphology of the new housing units. The aim of this project is to create the specific type of social housing for the specific place, which provide many potentials and flexibility to reinforce the relationship of the project with the town by means of the urban concept established on the idea of connecting and defining public spaces by their enclosure and creating a small scaled network system providing sequential experiencing of the public path through the specific part of the town. In a more detailed part it is the design of housing units allow a compact social daily life by focusing on public-private thresholds, neighborhood, safety feeling and social communication.