Title |
A Post-Occupancy Evaluation Study of Deteriorated Apartment Housing - Focused on Design Alternatives for Remodeling and New Model Development - |
Keywords |
Residential Satisfaction ; Post-Occupancy Evaluation ; Apartment Housing ; House Deterioration ; Remodeling |
Abstract |
The purpose of this study is to find out the influence of housing estates deterioration on residential satisfaction and to suggest the design alternatives for complementing the drawbacks caused by deterioration. For these purposes, this study classified evaluation items into objective and subjective aspects, on both physical and social levels, collected a sample of 538 residents responded to a questionaire and analyzed the relationship between residential satisfaction and major factors by multivariate linear regression analysis. The findings were as follows. First, impact of house deterioration on residential satisfaction was 4.4-11.6%, this impact level was higher as house size bacame smaller. Second, residents of house having more than 10 elapsed years after construction showed high dissatisfaction toward qualitative aspect of indoors and suitability of house size, and this caused high residential dissatisfaction. Third, design alternatives for remodeling and new apartment model development was suggested. |