Expansion of Behavioural Comfort Zone within Former Soviet Mass Housing

[摘要] A potentially wide-used architectural approach suitable for mass housing in the form of standard-type apartment buildings erected of bricks at the end of 1960-s is posed and analyzed in the paper; namely, the capability of a renovated building's exterior space as a system of balconies and loggias to improve simultaneously the inhabitants' domestic activity scheme and the use of the dwellings' area. As a result, the dependence between the appearance of free surplus of the living area and the use of the renovated exterior space area under different weather conditions is represented. The study could add a new view at the layout and content of balconies/loggias to the (inevitable) future programs of mass housing renovation.

[发布机构] Institute of Architecture and Construction, South Ural State University, Lenin Avenue 76, Chelyabinsk; 454080, Russia^1

[学科分类] 土木及结构工程学

[关键词] Apartment buildings;Architectural approach;Comfort zone;Domestic activity;Exterior spaces;Living area;Mass housing;Standard type