11th EAEA Envisioning Architecture: Design, Evaluation, Communication Conference in 2013

Track 2 | Experiential Simulation | The sensory perception of the built environment

Multitasking behaviour: residential experience and behavioral pattern in high-rise housing flat

ABSTRACT

The understanding of the residential perception of their living environment, and their experience in the shanking domestic space, which are the key factors of design houing environment.The spatial perception of dwelling could be gained not only from the physical environment, but also via the residents tacit knowledge, which derived from the reflection about the surrounding or the tasks approaching.By analysis the daily routin at home, the residential behavior patterns have been revealed, further more, the way of task- approching describes the phenomena that Multitasking Behavior has increaing important role in housing environment. This research employs Participatory Observation as a method to approach the object. Besides the existed literature, the residents’ living statues have been collected as the first hand data, which evolved both qualitative data from the in-depth survives at participants’ homes, and quantitative data from the housing typology. During the research design, cases from 4 countries were selected as the samples, namely, China, Finland, Mexico and India. By comparing these samples, we found the phenomenon of Multitasking Behavior,which is commonly happening during the urban living among these countries, which explained well the impact of density on residential experience in the high-rise housing living environment. The target groups of residents are the middle-class nuclear families (with1or more kids) of the countries. Since the living status and consumption style of this type of families are representing the average perception of the housing dwelling in their cities. Therefore,the residential behavior pattern, as well as the diversities and similarities of Multitasking Behavior within different cultural contexts have been revealed in the paper, which could inspire the design practice of housing, domestic products and furniture areas.The multitasing Behavior can plays important role as criteria on the housing POE process (post-occupation evaluation).

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AUTHORS

Wang Leirah

Living Places Research Group, School of Art, Design and Architecture, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland

Leirah Wang, doctoral candidate and researcher currently she is working for the Living Place Research Group in Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Graduated from Tsinghua University in Beijing, she was selected by Chinese government to and got the CSC funding for PhD study in Aalto University. In Finland she found her interest in people-environment behavioral research, thus her dissertation 'Experience of Scale: residential behavior and housing interior' is about the tacit spatial scale perception of the residents in different culture context. She is going to coordinate post-doctoral research program about housing living, which will be hold by Tsinghua in Beijing, Tongji University in Shanghai, and Aalto University in Finland.

Dhima Sari

Leader of Living Places Research Group School of Art, Design and Architecture, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland

Ma Steven

Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong

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