Uploaded on 2014-12-09 by AFlas

Visible in the photo:In the photo you can see the Swiętokrzyska Street in Warsaw city center. The street frontage mainly filled with in typical for 1950s socialism architecture buildings. Low cost, easy to build, repeatable, dull buildings. The street was rebuilt lately (because of the new metro line). The street, pavement, bike line, small architecture is brand new. The building stayed non renovated for many years. The building consists of two functions – services in the ground floor and the first floor and apartments in the upper floors. The invisible: The apartments in the building are low-cost, tiny apartments, explored to very busy and noisy street. This is why they are not attractive on the apartment market any more. They stay occupied by not very wealthy people, mainly elderly. This makes it very hard to renovate the building and fill the gap between the development of the street and apartments above. After the renovation of the street the services are exploring while the apartments above tend to be less attractive. How this information can be used in urban planning: By proposing advanced planning techniques and ideas to communities to make the whole building and its surroundings coherent. Analysing weather devoting more profits from the rental of services area to renovate the apartment part would be a good solution. Maybe giving formal possibilities to combine few tiny apartments to create apartments attractive on the market. Or transforming apartments to offices or services. [1]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/14181656344206598.jpg