Evaluation of Apartment Living Spaces and Feedback on the Social Environment for Children's Play

Urbanization continues to demand more low-cost housings. Walk-up flats are popular housing forms for their relatively lower construction and maintenance costs. Standardization and spatial efficiency requirements result in minimum dwelling spaces that spill life outdoor. For children, outdoor space becomes an integral part of growing up and social experiences. Different flats configurations offer different spatial affordances for such experiences that could inform designs. The paper explores children outdoor activities and relates them to flats layouts through a comparative study and found that the different flats configurations affect the different patterns of children outdoor activities.

کلیدواژه ها:

flats ، outdoor space ، children social environment