Abstract
This paper evaluates communal housing units with south-side-in planning. They can be a good solution for isolated elderly people's life in public housings, but it is also a difficult planning scheme when residents themselves do not understand its characteristics. We interviewed residents in 3 different type of south-side-in public communal housing in Hokuriku region. Important findings are; 1) if living room, dining room and kitchen are facing to southern common space (ail), residents and their neighbors actively communicate through windows, 2) flexible buffer space is important for residents to create communicative space according to their preferences, and so on.
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