DIGITAL SPONTANIETY VII
Tr: Dijital Rastlantı VII
2021/22 Second Term
Mixed-Income Housing Rehabilitation of Tallin Microrayons
The subject of DSS7 is mixed-income housing design in micro-districts. Micro-district, also known as microrayon or microregion, is the name for settlements between neighborhoods and districts, stemming from the urban planning methods of the former Soviet Union. It is a term used in countries within this geography. Micro-districts represent an opposite pole in terms of impact on the urban life scenario after the collapse of the Soviet Union. While resembling the logic of housing units used to meet the need for large-scale affordable housing in our country, they are a much more comprehensive planning tool.
The irregular urban population growth caused by rapid industrialization has led to housing crises. Socialist administrations, prioritizing rapid and practical solutions to housing needs, began implementing micro-district-type developments spread across many important cities in the Soviet Union from the 1960s. In addition to construction technologies developed for rapid prefab housing production, they provide positive contributions in terms of providing green spaces and easy access to basic needs for users.
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Micro-district design is based on planning satellite settlements that can self-sustain away from city centers. Micro-districts, which have readily identifiable boundaries when viewed from above, create systems with systematic highway networks and even railway connections. In addition to housing needs, micro-regions include functions such as education, shopping, and recreation. They are generally planned to accommodate a capacity where 5,000-15,000 people can live.
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Designed as neighborhood units, micro-districts with their rigid block housing impose limits on subsequent living conditions and behavioral patterns. Micro-regions are inadequate in reducing energy consumption of the blocks within them and providing spatial diversity for different users. Due to planning decisions, the period of 20-50 years, which is considered to meet a given need, cannot be foreseen beyond its end. Micro-districts, facing traffic problems as well, require new designs to adapt to contemporary urban mobility concepts.
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It is precisely at this point that the sustainability of micro-regions emerges as the problem of Digital Spontaneity 7, aiming to design a new ecosystem through calculable urban textures.
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Mardin Atuklu University
Faculty of Engineering and Architecture
Artuklu / Mardin
Turkey
+90 (482) 213 40 02 (6011)
serdaraydin (at) artuklu (dot) edu (dot) tr
