Chapter 3: Strategies in Designing Multi-Generational Housing : Overall Space Planning(Updated on 15/11/2017)
Chapter 3: Strategies in Designing Multi-Generational Housing In searching for the ideal living condition, people would prefer to keep in touch with their family as well as to express love and caring along with the psychological support. A recent survey shows that there is 38% of the survey respondents would want to live with family in the same house while 32% of them would want to live with their family in the different compound within the same housing area. Practice of multi-generational living were still being supported and agreed by the community nowadays. Chart 17 shows the ideal living condition from the targeted survey respondents. Meanwhile, in order to promote multi-generational living efficiently, elements such as communication, togetherness, privacy and others would need to be kept in mind. Therefore, different strategies were being analysed with the aim to promote multi-generational living as an option in future hou