The present research proposal gathers, for the first time in Romania, efforts of various researchers and institutions expressing complementary approaches for the creation of a professional knowledge framework for applying rehabilitation operations at large scale housing estates built during the last decades. Furthermore, the objectives of the project allow the integration of the forecasted results as well as the outcome synergy towards new outputs:

Year 1

Documentation and information processing meant to overcome the obstacles occurred not only in the communication among the professionals involved in the research project, but also with and among the tertiary experts. Accordingly, the outcomes aim to fill the gaps within the existing information base regarding the topic of large-scale housing estates rehabilitation.

Year 2

Elaboration of a diagnosis methodology meant to integrate physical aspects of the built environment with issues related to the use dynamics, within the national context of legal, economic and administrative framework. Several criteria from various fields of expertise will be corroborated within an analysis framework for large-scale housing estates.

Year 3

On the basis of the research documentation and also considering the criteria set up previously, the present project proposes the configuration of potential scenarios for rehabilitation operations within a large-scale housing estate.

Several examples of rehabilitation operations carried out in European Union countries will be selected. The criteria of selection will be framed as a set of similarities concerning the physical and the use dynamics of the large-scale housing estates in EU countries and in Romania.

The final and the intermediate stages concede a special concern for the awareness and empowerment of the urban actors (stakeholders) interested and involved in the realm of housing rehabilitation: professionals, homeowners, local and central government, private investors, etc.