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JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH
9_Necessity of Building Amenities in the Apartment Building
of the Respondents:
Graph 7: Necessity of Building Amenities in the Apartment
Building of the Respondents. Author’s design.
If spaces such as baby carriage and bicycle storage rooms, waste
placement areas, basement storage units, utility rooms, parking
areas, laundry drying rooms, gathering areas and modified flat
rooftops are located in the buildings of the respondents
(assuming that they do exist), they would use these spaces.
10_Functions of Building Amenities in the Apartment Building
of the respondents:
Graph 8: Functions of building amenities in the apartment
building of the respondents. Author’s design.
According to the statements of the respondents, the original
purpose of the building amenities, as designed at the time, is
today only fulfilled by the mailbox, the waste placement area,
heating equipment rooms and parking areas. Predominantly also
the basement storage units.
11_Location of Storage Space for Items in the Apartment
Building of the Respondents:
Graph 9: Location of Storage Space for Items in the Apartment
Building of the Respondents. Author’s design.
From the graph, it can be inferred that 34% of the respondents
would wish to have a storage space for items in the apartment
building, or potentially in the basement of the building, such as
are basement storage units (20%), on the ground floor of the
building by the main entrance (17%) or also in separate spaces in
close proximity to the apartment building (15%).
12_Open Question: In your opinion, how can the situation of
building amenities in the apartment building be improved?
This was the only question open to the respondents to be
answered in up to 20 words. To this final question, the
respondents responded almost in the same way regardless of
their permanent residence, the size of the apartment or the
usability and the spatial efficiency of building amenities. By
requiring more storage space in the apartment or outside the
apartment and their large area, more parking spaces, and, most
importantly, about 70% of the respondents considered security to
be the most important. They talked about security in conjunction
with building amenities, front doors, but also the neighborhood
of the apartment buildings.
Partial summary of the questionnaire survey:
When present in the apartment building, the following are
actually used:
- Basement storage units and storerooms (insufficient for the
needs of residents)
- Parking areas (insufficient for the needs of residents)
- Spaces for gathering (insufficient for the needs of residents
When present in the apartment building, the following are
not actually used:
- Laundry rooms (empty space, storage)
- Mangles (empty space, storage)
- Other building amenities (e.g. baby carriage and bicycle
storage - insufficient for the needs of residents) are used
variously, for example depending on the location, the size of the
apartment or the structure of the inhabitants of the apartment
building.
5 Conclusion
The aim of this paper was to analyze the current state of the real
usability of building amenities of panel buildings so that in the
subsequent research it would be possible to propose measures
and recommendations for solving individual, identified problems
of building amenities of prefab housing, and their demonstration
on selected concrete examples. Using work steps and
comparisons of the results of quantitative research and
documentation of the historical and current state of housing
issues in residential (panel) buildings, the requirements for
building amenities in prefabricated apartment buildings for
weighted user comfort have emerged. By analogy we can apply
the acquired knowledge to panel buildings of the same categories
and most of their modifications that do not differ in the location
and existence of building amenities. However, for example, the
effects of the different spectrum of residents of such buildings
and forms of housing cannot standardize and generalize the
requirements for building amenities. The human factor
introduces a completely different, almost philosophical
dimension to this question.
The concluding assessment must of course include a statement
on whether the working hypotheses postulated at the beginning
of the research were proven or not.
Hypothesis / 1
The current demands for the existence of building infrastructure
in (panel) apartment buildings are directly proportional to their
originally intended functions.
HYPOTHESIS WAS PROVEN
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