| Title |
A Study on Design Characteristics of 'Ground Floor Space' in Urban Housing - focusing on European Multi-storey Housing considering the Urban Context - |
| DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5659/JAIK_PD.2017.33.11.53 |
| Keywords |
Ground Floor Space ; Urban Housing ; Urban Context ; Gradual Connection ; Transitional Space ; Intermediate Space |
| Abstract |
The modern urban planning and architecture transformed the ground floor area into parking lots and banished pedestrians from the streets, resulting in a closed housing-culture, loss of place, loss of community consciousness. I would like to suggest a direction to solve these problems. In this study, the 'Ground floor space' is defined as a whole indoor and outdoor space on the ground connected with the urban street and the entrance including outdoor space in the backside of building. I analyzed the recent housing projects in Europe and could draw several design characteristics of the ground floor space in the urban housing. First, for the connection from an urban street to a unit household, transitional spaces with differentiated characteristics are connected in the procedural system. Residents can perceive gradual spatial changes from public to private space and from outside to inside. Second, for social interaction, the intermediate space with public programs and adaptable design of threshold elements can accommodate the characteristic of the surrounding area and activate the urban street. In addition, the common use spaces for daily life are placed on the circulation route and they are connected in three-dimensional way. Third, there is a specialized design for the base section of facade forming the urban landscape to give pedestrians continuous experience. And a space for social interaction and for interchange with the surrounding natural environment is created by overlapping boundary elements at the facade. |