Study Of The Design For The Minitype Residential Space

Ever since China’s economic reform, urbanization increased in speed following the fast developing economic. More and more people choose to live in cities for better opportunities and living condition. The rapid urbanization also raises questions for improving city dwellers’ living space environment. As a result, how to relieve the accommodation pressure with an ever-growing population in cities has become an important issues in China’s modernization process.In cope with a huge demands for accommodations, new apartments must be built. In turns of overall social benefits, the building location should be selected to be close to or near the heart of city, where public supporting facilities are normally well developed. However, this strategy often leads to the shortage of land. However, as this is inevitable, micro-small size yet comfortable accommodation with improving land using efficiency has become more and more popular in the recent years, and these design also shows a promising future.According the circumstance in China, this thesis focus on studying the design concept of small and micro size apartments with areas ranged from 30 t o 60 s quare meters. After literature of relating cases are reviewed, the thesis first conducts research based on the comparison of human body di mension, living space dimension, the relation and the arrangement of individual functional space. Next, the thesis generalized the concepts and methodology of designing micro-small apartments. At the end of the thesis, research outcome and contribution are summarized. An outlook of future micro-small apartments is presented.The purpose of this thesis is to retrospect the design concepts, market demands and social background of micro-small apartments, and to present well-tailored living intensive space design that solve problems relating China’s urbanization cases.