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Add, Transform, and Utilize. Possibilities of Applying Druot, Lacaton, and Vassal’s Modernization Strategies and Solutions in Polish Large-Panel Housing Estates

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  • Milena Trzcińska

    (Faculty of Architecture, Warsaw University of Technology, 00-659 Warsaw, Poland)

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In 2004, in response to France’s 1960s and 1970s urban regeneration program proposing the demolition and redevelopment of large scale social housing developments, Frédérik Druot, Anne Lacaton, and Jean-Philippe Vassal created their PLUS theory (PLUS—Les grands ensembles de logements–Territoires d’exception). Its main aim was to modernize the existing buildings, and to add extra living space, functional freedom, and comfort. This essay examines the PLUS strategy and two of the architects’ projects: the Bois le Prêtre Tower in Paris and the Grand Parc housing estate in Bordeaux. Its aim is to examine the tools used by the architects and investigate the purposefulness and potential of using their solutions in Polish large-scale prefabricated housing estates. Combining the categories of luxury and saving in redevelopment of housing estates paves the way for a new outlook. Maximizing living space, quality, and freedom of living in housing facilities that are not part of the commercial luxury segment of the housing market may prevent potential gentrification and homogenization of the social structure in individual city districts.

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  • Milena Trzcińska, 2021. "Add, Transform, and Utilize. Possibilities of Applying Druot, Lacaton, and Vassal’s Modernization Strategies and Solutions in Polish Large-Panel Housing Estates," Land, MDPI, vol. 10(12), pages 1-20, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jlands:v:10:y:2021:i:12:p:1308-:d:689558
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    1. Provan, Bert, 2017. "Mixing communities? Riots, regeneration and renewal on problem estates in France and England," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 84242, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
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