I had lived in an apartment before, and now had happily moving out into a terrace house. there are quite few limitations that I could see living in an apartment complex.
One of those are lack of socializing areas for people to chat around with their neighbors or to host a simple party/kenduri.
I had come out with a design that I see could foster better neighborhood.
In this design each block would have few housing levels.
in each housing levels, there will be one row of the upper and lower apartment units. these apartment units are linked to the common areas in the middle of each level.
the lift (missing in the video) will stop at each lower level houses , and those on the upper level houses might need to use staircase or possibly a small ramp .
This design are to foster good relationship among neighbors as each block could have thir own residence association,which then have multiple section based on the "level"
The common area is the the key for the design, in which they could play simple sport such as badminton or to conduct simple party or kenduri.
Each level would have to handle their own cleaning up maintenance at the common area.
Further design should include parking lots located adjacent to each levels, in which the tenant can drive their vehicles upthe parking lot and park at the same level as their homes.
Having four such blocks connected to multi-storey parking lots in the middle ( configuration which looks like a four pointed star if looked from above) might reduce costs for the whole complex, such as elevators which could be shared among all four blocks.
the elevators would also make less stops since the block have only four (two-storey) levels.
Added facilities such as rubbish chute for each floor could be an added advantage.
to visualize the block design. you could view the animation that I did using google skethup below.
or you could view them at youtube
2 comments:
implementation of rubbish chute on the low cost apartment was the most stupid and impractical one.
People keep dumping glass and heavy junks into the rubbish chute. Indirectly it has bombarded the lower floors' rubbish chute doors. Mine one has cracked and if it broken, all rats, roaches, bloody stench will all break loose like hell.
Build up stench and dirt at these rubbish chute was unbearable even though daily clean up by cleaners were done everyday 3 times.
Actually best practice is for tenants to pack up rubbish nicely and carried it to allotted dump site.
Who the was the stupid brain who didn't think of long term dirt hazard it had caused??? Perhaps i may blog how sucks built in rubbish chute can caused.
since there only four floors, each floor could have individual garbage chute that goes to their own garbage bin.
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