Strategy and Tactics in Common Renovation of Ordinary Existing Housing

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This paper extends its field of research to renovation of ordinary existing housing, the greatest characteristic of which is little personality and few styles. Distinguishing from landmark building, renovation of ordinary existing building fabric calls for highly specific approaches in planning, construction, and implementation. We, the architects develop renovation ideas and principles applied to ordinary existing housing offering our view of advocating stage renovation and knowing the real demand of the end user. Based on this view, we have chosen one typical action to discuss the efficient strategy and tactics, that cover the key areas of revitalizing community space with a focus on territoriality and sharing, improving housing function and aesthetic transformation which mainly address the integrity of facade remodeling and function upgrade, two-scale design and detail show, and adopting appropriate technology with particular emphasis on economic cost and user comfort conditions. The exploration on strategy and tactics in common renovation of ordinary existing housing aims to present references and experiences to urban residential sustainable development from both the theoretical and practical fields.

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August 2013

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