Valuing the yet-to be-loved - Conscientious retrofitting for people and place, homes and their heritage

战后大规模住房（PMH）解决了前所未有的住房需求，在1945年至1985年期间，英国建造了近6000座多层公共住房。这些住宅最初代表着现代性，现在迫切需要现代化。然而，现代建筑的遗产价值仍然存在争议，PMH面临着更强烈的反对，体现了“尚未被喜爱”的建筑。这项研究将通过解决建筑保护的竞争价值和对高效安全住宅的需求，推动遗产意义的学术研究超越传统保护。一个新颖的居民包容性遗产框架将产生，以推进重建，通过认真的改造促进社会和环境的可持续性。公众的恶意认知和数十年的残余化已经使PMH陷入了社会和身体衰退的循环。生活成本危机、日益严重的燃料贫困和气候紧急情况凸显了重新评估拆除和侵入性改造非上市PMH的选择的紧迫性。拆迁威胁到可持续性，使居民流离失所，导致遗产的流失。相反，改造可能会导致中产阶级化，可以掩盖而不是纠正系统性的忽视。然而，这个关键时刻提供了一个重新评估改造的机会，以赋予居民权力，并审查排他性PMH指定实践。虽然学术界认识到PMH保护的传统遗产框架的不兼容性，但它只是部分地被挥之不去的污名化和“概念悖论”所解释，即遗产识别需要调和“现代”和“遗产”的相反概念。因此，这一发展领域的重大复杂性仍未得到阐明。该项目还将解决一个相关但目前被忽视的“价值悖论”，即将基于独特性和声望的传统遗产概念应用于大量建造的住房和市政当局的矛盾。虽然提出了社会文化、遗产意识改造的建议，但在改造实践和遗产考虑之间仍然存在分歧。弥合这一差距至关重要，因为如果不协调这些要求，这些房屋的保护将无法维持。改造已经成为PMH的必要条件，该项目通过合并这些相互冲突的领域，为学术做出了重大贡献。该项目将通过包容性遗产识别框架和良心改造的新概念，即通过社会文化、遗产意识和包容性改造来保护，将改造实践作为一种再生和保护策略。通过概述环境可持续性和动态遗产保护的途径，该研究提供了一种保留建筑意义的方法，同时解决了危险的生活条件。该研究采用混合方法，将档案荟萃分析与行动和数据驱动研究相结合。在第一年的调查之后，居民视角的扎根理论将应用于第二年的案例研究，研究社会、环境和遗产可持续性这三个相互竞争的考虑因素。同样在第二年，数据驱动的研究将为认真改造的框架和概念化提供实证依据。为了理解PMH的价值，深度叙事分析将调查档案来源、采访记录和社交媒体的趋势。在第三年，将采用创造性的建筑可视化和数字遗产存档方法来制作框架，以视觉方式传达已编纂的遗产价值和物理衰败。研究的最后阶段将集中于综合和传播研究结果。

Post-war mass housing (PMH) was a solution to an unprecedented housing demand, with nearly 6,000 multi-storey public housing blocks built in Britain between 1945 and 1985. Initially representing modernity, these homes now require urgent modernisation. However, the heritage valorisation of Modern architecture remains contentious, with PMH facing stronger opposition, embodying "yet-to-be-loved" architecture. This research will advance the scholarship of heritage significance beyond traditional conservation by tackling the competing values of architectural protection and the need for efficient and safe homes. A novel resident-inclusive heritage framework will be produced to advance redevelopment that promotes social and environmental sustainability through conscientious retrofitting.A maligned public perception and decades of residualisation have consigned PMH to a cycle of social and physical decay. The cost-of-living crisis, rising levels of fuel poverty, and climate emergency highlight the urgency to reassess the choice between demolition and invasive retrofitting of non-listed PMH. Demolition threatens sustainability and displaces residents, resulting in the loss of heritage. Conversely, retrofits can incur gentrification and can disguise rather than rectify the systematic neglect. Yet, this critical juncture presents an opportunity to re-evaluate retrofitting to empower residents and review the exclusionary PMH designation practices.While scholarship recognises the incompatibilities of traditional heritage frameworks for PMH conservation, it is only partially explained by a lingering stigmatisation and a 'conceptual paradox', namely that heritage recognition demands the contrary concepts of 'modern' and 'heritage' be reconciled. Thus, significant complexities within this developing field remain unarticulated. The project will also address a related but currently overlooked 'value paradox', namely the contradiction of applying traditional heritage notions predicated upon uniqueness and prestige to housing built en masse and by municipalities. While proposals for sociocultural, heritage-conscious retrofits have been suggested, a division persists between retrofit practices and heritage considerations. It is crucial to bridge this gap, as the conservation of these homes will become untenable without an alignment between these imperatives. Retrofitting has become a necessity for PMH, and this project offers a significant contribution to scholarship by merging these conflicting fields. This project will establish the practice of retrofitting as both a regenerative and protective strategy through an inclusive heritage recognition framework and the novel concept of conscientious retrofitting, i.e. conservation through sociocultural, heritage-conscious, and inclusive retrofitting. By outlining this pathway for environmental sustainability and dynamic heritage conservation, the research provides a means of retaining the architectural significance while addressing perilous living conditions. The research employs a mixed methodology, combining archival meta-analysis with action and data-driven research. Following reconnaissance surveys in year one, a grounded theory for resident perspectives will be applied to case studies in year two, examining the three contending considerations of social, environmental, and heritage sustainability. Also in year two, data-driven research will provide empirical justifications for the framework and the conceptualisation of conscientious retrofits. To understand the value ascribed to PMH, deep-narrative analysis will investigate trends in archival sources, interview transcripts, and social media. During year three, creative building visualisation and digital heritage archiving methods will be utilised to produce the framework, which will visually communicate codified heritage value and physical decay. The last stages of the research will focus on synthesising and disseminating the findings.