| Title |
Changes in Residential Lifestyles in the Contemporary Korean Society in the Context of the Changes in the 3LDK Apartment Unit Plans in the Metropolitan |
| Abstract |
As a sequel to the previous study which dealt with the 4LDK apartments, changes found in the unit floor plans of the 3LDK apartments built in Seoul Metropolitan area from 1960s to 1990s are analyzed in the context of Space Syntax model ; and changes in the residential lifestyle in the contemporary Korean society are traced from such analyses.The results indicate the following : corridor-type apartment building layout is no longer used in the 1990s and this suggests that now the Koreans seek privacy from neighboring units instead of social interaction with them ; the number of new prototype for 3LDK apartment units developed per each year is increasing, and the space layout patterns originally developed for 4LDK units are now fully adapted to 3LDK units, both of which suggest that the Koreans began to consider not only the quantity of their residential space but also the quality; layout changes in the kitchen / dining area indicate that the traditional role and relative position of women have changed to being more or less equal with those of men ; and finally, layout changes in the bedrooms demonstrate that the Western concept of bedroom was initially set into the Korean apartments, but as time goes on, the traditional concept of bedroom which embraces both private sleeping quarter and public familial living quarter has taken in. |