Formulation of network which supports regeneration of apartment housings in cooperation with local community welfare in metropolitan ring

目前，在都市圈存在着许多昭和30年代至40年代建造的公共公寓住宅。应认识到这些住房是一种区域资源，并加以有效利用，使其在未来的居住环境更加适宜。在本研究中，组织了一组在都市圈大学工作的研究人员，旨在调查和提出公共公寓住宅的再生方式。在本研究的第一年，研究了居民的生活状况和他们对公寓住房的生活态度。因此，居民们似乎有动力改善自己的生活条件，有时由于经济状况或租赁协议迫使居民将住房恢复到与入住时相同的条件而无法实现。在接下来的一年里，提出并审查了居民自我改造制度，以克服这种情况。租了四套公寓，由大学生进行实验性改造。记录本项目所需的材料和工具、成本、时间、施工中出现的问题。基于这一结果，提出了一项建议，试图使居民改善他们现有的公共住房状况。这一建议有三个主要特点；1)使居民和提供者都能以较少的费用改善居住环境；2)通过组织非营利组织与当地大学生和房屋建筑商合作，使自我改造更有效，从而具有教育优势和积极的经济效应；3)在都市圈组织非营利组织网络，有利于将空置住房转变为当地社区福利中心。该方案被生活改善中心评选为最佳方案之一。

At the moment, there exist a number of public apartment housings which were built from Showa thirties to forties in metropolitan ring. These housings should be recognized as regional resource, and be effectively utilized turning residential environment of those into more suitable in coming age. In this research, a group of researchers working at universities in metropolitan ring are organized, aiming to investigate and propose the way how regenerate public apartment housings.In the first year of this research, residents' living situation and their attitudes towards living in an apartment housings are studied. As a result, it appeared that residents have motivation to improve their living condition, which sometimes are impossible because of economic situation or rental agreement which force residents to turn their housings back to as same condition as the time to move in. In the following year, self-renovation system by residents were proposed and examined to overcome this situation. Four apartment housings were rented, and experimental renovation was conducted by university students. Materials and tools, costs, amount of time, problems in construction which required to this project are recorded. Based on this result, a proposal is made which try to enable residents to improve their existing public housing situation. There are three major features in this proposal; 1) Enable to both residents and providers improve residential environment with little expense, 2) Cooperate with local university students and house builders by organizing NPOs, which make self-renovation more effective and in turn have educational advantage and positive economic effects, 3) Organizing a network of NPOs in metropolitan ring, which facilitates to convert vacant housings into centers of local community welfare. This proposal was selected one of the best proposals by the Center for Better Living.