Space-planning decisions of sanitary facilities of residential buildings in Russia

Abstract

Currently, in the practice of designing residential buildings in Russia, sanitary facilities are given a secondary role, which reduces the level of comfort when living in an apartment. Architects are trying to give more space to all other rooms of the apartment, reducing the area of sanitary facilities. In the work, using the examples of residential multi-apartment buildings built in recent years in Moscow and the Moscow Region, the planning decisions of modern apartments, in particular their sanitary facilities, were studied and analyzed. It was concluded that the modern space-planning decisions of the sanitary facilities do not meet the requirements for the comfort of sanitary-hygienic procedures: small areas, lack of space for furniture, irrational installation of engineering equipment, not suitable for people with disabilities, etc. New space-planning solutions have been developed for one-room, two-room and three-room apartments, which will satisfy the end users and create a comfortable living environment in apartments of residential buildings.