PhD student spotlight - Petros Tsitnidis | Architecture Research Group

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Listening to occupants; how can the social housing sector use post occupancy evaluation to improve tenant experience, housing management and environmental impact?

Petros Tsitnidis

Student: Petros Tsitnidis
Director of Studies: Prof. David Johnston
Second Supervisor: Dr. David Glew
External Advisor: Dr. Claire Hannibal

Project description

Obtaining feedback on building design is currently highly ignored, even if its value has been recognised since the middle of the 20th century. Starting from the early methods that Sim van der Ryn and Peter Manning published during the 1960s, to the Probe project and the contemporary Soft Landings method by Bill Bordass and Adrian Leamann, the research aims to investigate the purposes and usefulness of existing Post-Occupancy Evaluation methods. In addition to that, the research aims to create an understanding of the information Social Housing providers need to make better decisions regarding refurbishment and new-built developments. Utilising mainly qualitative research methods and focusing on the human factor, this research aims to draw meaningful conclusions about the viability of a Post-Occupancy Evaluation method fit for the practices of the Social Housing sector. Taking into consideration the technical, social and political issues the Social Housing sector is currently facing, this research will have significant impact in making the practices of Social Housing providers more efficient and their relationship with social tenants more productive.

student Biography

Petros Tsitnidis is an Architect and Environmental Engineer (MSc UCL). He has been a part-time lecturer in Environmental Design and in Architectural Design at the Leeds School of Architecture, and a tutor for the Science without Borders (SwB) Design Summer School 2015 at Leeds Beckett University. He is a mentor and visiting lecturer at the EcoHack sustainability program, organised by Tech City College, London and supported by the Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges (EAUC) and the Building Research Establishment (BRE). Petros has founded and run his own architectural practice and provided architectural, construction and environmental consultancy for more than five years. His research aims to create a general understanding of the factors that affect the building during its lifetime in order to feedback to the architectural design process. Petros is also a research associate of the School of Architecture for All (SARCHA) since 2010 and has been involved in a number of SARCHA’s research projects, acknowledged by institutions like the Hellenic Ministry for the Environment and Climate Change, the Royal Society of Arts, the Architecture Foundation and the London Festival of Architecture. He has worked as sustainability editor for a Greek website and his artwork has been exhibited at the Athens Video Art Festival.