VREDNOTENJE UPORABNE VREDNOSTI STANOVANJ ZA DVIG BIVALNE KAKOVOSTI
USE VALUE ASSESSMENT FOR RAISING THE QUALITY OF HOUSING

Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses sustainable housing development, focusing on the assessment of housing quality conducted on the basis of various methods and tools for evaluating the design concepts of new housing developments and the renovation of existing housing estates. The introduction determines the issue of multi-family residential housing as the framework of the research. In the last decades, in view of social sustainability, various tools for evaluating housing quality were developed. We observe that, in Slovenia, certain regulations and recommendations concerning this topic exist, but they do not include the criteria of the quality of architectural design from the residents’ point of view. Next, we present a Swiss system for determining the use value of dwellings for the resident, which we consider appropriate for evaluating the housing quality in Slovenia We tested the tool by assessing individual dwellings in residential buildings located in three characteristic housing estates in Maribor. In this way, we obtained the results regarding the use value of dwellings that varied heavily in view of the architectural, structural and technological characteristics. As a conclusion, we discussed the opportunities of incorporating the use value assessment into the Slovenian regulations and strategic documents concerning the renovation of the existing housing stock as well as new housing developments.

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