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2018 , Vol. 7 >Issue 1: 80 - 91

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foar.2017.11.004

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Housing flexibility problem: Review of recent limitations and solutions

  • Sabine Ritter De Paris ,
  • Carlos Nuno L. Lopes
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  • Centro de Inovação em Arquitectura e Modos de Habitar (CIAMH), University of Porto,Porto 4150-564, Portugal

Received date: 24 Aug 2017

Revised date: 28 Nov 2017

Accepted date: 30 Nov 2017

Published date: 28 Mar 2018

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2017 2017 Higher Education Press Limited Company. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of KeAi. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Abstract

The economic, technological, and cultural transformations of our present society influence various scales of our daily lives. In housing, these transformations include changes in the family nucleus and the activities performed in living spaces. Housing flexibility seeks to meet the multiple needs of users by changing their living spaces and functions. This study aims to explore housing flexibility through a review of relevant literature, discussion of valuable findings, and presentation of a contemporary panorama of the theme. Notions of flexibility are integrated to reinterpret the contemporary sense of dwelling. However, the lack of a well-defined concept of flexibility hinders the integration of methods and theories on the subject.

Key words： Housing; Flexibility; Building

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Sabine Ritter De Paris , Carlos Nuno L. Lopes . Housing flexibility problem: Review of recent limitations and solutions[J]. Frontiers of Architectural Research, 2018 , 7(1) : 80 -91 . DOI: 10.1016/j.foar.2017.11.004

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