Title A Study on Characteristics of Apartment House's Living Room Space - Focusing on Apartment Units with a Floor Area of 140㎡~159㎡ -
Authors Lee Choon-Ook ; Lee Jeong-Ho
Page pp.95-102
ISSN 12269093
Keywords Apartment House ; Living Room Space ; Physical ; Social and Aesthetic Characteristics
Abstract Most of our national land has been urbanized, and the residential areas of cities are mostly occupied by apartment buildings. Currently most of people live in apartment houses. This means that most of people interact with one another while being influenced by spatial characteristics of apartment houses. This study was conducted to examine the physical, social and aesthetic characteristics of the apartment living room space that may have an effect on family member. so that such characteristics can be used as data helpful to make a floor plan suitable for the diversifying society when designing the living room space of apartment houses in the future. The floor features of 4 cases whose the types were different were analyzed, and then their physical, social and aesthetic characteristics were compared and evaluated through the questionnaire survey. The floors of the 4 cases showed little difference in size but they showed much difference in the characteristics of living room space that were examined in connection with floor features. Some same floors showed remarkably different results of evaluation by categories of living room space's characteristics, while other floors showed relatively uniform results of evaluation in both categories of physical and social characteristics.