SUSTAINABLE ‘HOUSING QUALITY’ IN TERMS OF INSTALLATIONS AND INFRASTRUCTURE
FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
It can be said that users/dwellers are the most important actors on spatial quality studies. This study aimed to understand ‘how the installing and infrastructural problems can affect housing quality.’
After a literature review and research on the quality studies related with refurbishment, site observations, questionnaires and in-depth interviews were done.
As a result of the European experience examination, some facts were understood that can be listed as:
installation and infrastructural problems are important problems in sustainability. And they are related with material lifespan, deterioration and improper use. They affect the perception of the housing quality more or less.
While asking the users about their problems with the housing, they generally focus on basic electricity, water, gas, cooling and heating problems, but as these problems are physical problems, they can also list their social or physiological problems. Spatial quality relates to both physical and social problems.
With the site observations, some interventions were seen in the neighbourhood, apartment buildings and flats. With these interventions, it was understood that there can be some quality problems where users struggle individually. Users wanted to improve the housing quality with new technologies. Some of them changed the electricity and water, gas, cooling and heating installations. To learn the relationship between the housing quality and installing and infrastructure, a questionnaire was conducted with the users in 3 different scales, and the results showed that these issues are related with housing quality, but to how much effect? The answer to this question is up to the users’ behaviour and tendencies. Perception of housing quality is directly related with user profile and their characteristics.
In some cases, these physical problems can cause a decrease of quality while in some cases they are not important.
Sustainability of housing quality is related with equipment and their maintenance and renovation.
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