RAISE YOUR STANDARDS an investigation of how design attributes improve the quality in apartments
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Examensarbete för masterexamen
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Master's Thesis
Model builders
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The housing construction industry in Sweden faces several
challenges, such as a housing shortage, slow building pace, high
prices, and low-quality residences. To maximize profits, construction
companies prioritize quick and cheap building projects, resulting in
smaller apartments with a concerning lack of qualitative features
such as axiality and circular movement.
The purpose of this thesis is to draw attention to design attributes
as an important part of housing architecture, and its contribution
to the advancement of architectural quality. The thesis explores
several design attributes in contemporary housing architecture
and investigates how they can be incorporated through floor plans
in an existing, newly developed, housing proposal.
The aim is to redesign the apartments in an existing proposal
incorporating design attributes without compromising the
building’s program. The final proposal illustrates how design
attributes are incorporated in different types of apartments and
investigates the impact of the changes on the existing building
volume. Eventually demonstrating area efficient apartments that
through design attributes have achieved high architectural quality.
The research questions focus on how design attributes improve the
quality in different types of apartments and explore their impact
on the building itself compared to the existing proposal.
• Q1. How can design attributes improve the quality in different
types of apartments?
• Q2. What impact do design attributes in apartments have on
the overall building?
The thesis investigation has been conducted as a collaboration
between five main methods: research for/on/by design, literature
studies and case studies. Literature and case studies have gathered
information on the topic, built a foundation for further investigation
and defined the design strategies that are being used. Lastly the
thesis practices research by design carried out by using several
design attributes as strategies in the design proposal.
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design attributes, quality, floor plans, area efficiency