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A critical review of user fit-out in habitable rooms in high-rise residential apartments in Malaysia

Nowadays, high-rise residential apartments (HRRA) are developing very fast in major urban areas in Malaysia. However, the layouts of these apartment units seem to be too typical and lacking certain contextual socio-environmental considerations. A residential unit accommodates more than just rooms. T...

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Main Authors: Mousavi, Seyed Mohammad, Khan, Tareef Hayat, Lim, Yaik Wah
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Published: Canadian Center of Science and Education 2016
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spelling my.utm.739152017-11-22T00:45:13Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/73915/ A critical review of user fit-out in habitable rooms in high-rise residential apartments in Malaysia Mousavi, Seyed Mohammad Khan, Tareef Hayat Lim, Yaik Wah NA Architecture Nowadays, high-rise residential apartments (HRRA) are developing very fast in major urban areas in Malaysia. However, the layouts of these apartment units seem to be too typical and lacking certain contextual socio-environmental considerations. A residential unit accommodates more than just rooms. There are distinct spaces with various Use-Territories (UTs) inside every room created by furniture layout. During the design stage, usually less importance is given to UTs. In search of their impact, the objectives of this study were firstly to identify the most popular furniture with their approximate dimensions, secondly to find their location in terms of distance from window, and thirdly, to identify typologies of furniture layouts in terms of UTs. Based on a questionnaire survey distributed among 98 HRRA residents in the city of Johor Bahru, the conceptual furnished plans of studied rooms were drawn. That was followed by a qualitative categorization carried out to extract the typologies of mostly-used UTs. Four typologies for living room and six of that for bedroom were identified through comparative analysis. The study showed that the social behavior of occupants in terms of arranging UT may be against their indoor environmental condition of daylighting. The significance of the study lies in the fact that in a tropical country like Malaysia with abundance of daylight but associated with glare, thermal heat gain, and low air movement, social needs can bend the users’ decisions to arrange pre-conceived convention of UTs in habitable rooms. Therefore, designing layouts or orienting habitable rooms should need more investigation. Canadian Center of Science and Education 2016 Article PeerReviewed Mousavi, Seyed Mohammad and Khan, Tareef Hayat and Lim, Yaik Wah (2016) A critical review of user fit-out in habitable rooms in high-rise residential apartments in Malaysia. Asian Social Science, 12 (2). pp. 184-194. ISSN 1911-2017 https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84987940016&doi=10.5539%2fass.v12n2p184&partnerID=40&md5=16ae7d8d653bd0ef89114a956820e622
institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
building UTM Library
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continent Asia
country Malaysia
content_provider Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
content_source UTM Institutional Repository
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topic NA Architecture
spellingShingle NA Architecture
Mousavi, Seyed Mohammad
Khan, Tareef Hayat
Lim, Yaik Wah
A critical review of user fit-out in habitable rooms in high-rise residential apartments in Malaysia
description Nowadays, high-rise residential apartments (HRRA) are developing very fast in major urban areas in Malaysia. However, the layouts of these apartment units seem to be too typical and lacking certain contextual socio-environmental considerations. A residential unit accommodates more than just rooms. There are distinct spaces with various Use-Territories (UTs) inside every room created by furniture layout. During the design stage, usually less importance is given to UTs. In search of their impact, the objectives of this study were firstly to identify the most popular furniture with their approximate dimensions, secondly to find their location in terms of distance from window, and thirdly, to identify typologies of furniture layouts in terms of UTs. Based on a questionnaire survey distributed among 98 HRRA residents in the city of Johor Bahru, the conceptual furnished plans of studied rooms were drawn. That was followed by a qualitative categorization carried out to extract the typologies of mostly-used UTs. Four typologies for living room and six of that for bedroom were identified through comparative analysis. The study showed that the social behavior of occupants in terms of arranging UT may be against their indoor environmental condition of daylighting. The significance of the study lies in the fact that in a tropical country like Malaysia with abundance of daylight but associated with glare, thermal heat gain, and low air movement, social needs can bend the users’ decisions to arrange pre-conceived convention of UTs in habitable rooms. Therefore, designing layouts or orienting habitable rooms should need more investigation.
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author Mousavi, Seyed Mohammad
Khan, Tareef Hayat
Lim, Yaik Wah
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Lim, Yaik Wah
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title A critical review of user fit-out in habitable rooms in high-rise residential apartments in Malaysia
title_short A critical review of user fit-out in habitable rooms in high-rise residential apartments in Malaysia
title_full A critical review of user fit-out in habitable rooms in high-rise residential apartments in Malaysia
title_fullStr A critical review of user fit-out in habitable rooms in high-rise residential apartments in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed A critical review of user fit-out in habitable rooms in high-rise residential apartments in Malaysia
title_sort critical review of user fit-out in habitable rooms in high-rise residential apartments in malaysia
publisher Canadian Center of Science and Education
publishDate 2016
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/73915/
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