New student residence unit typologies: introducing Housing Unit Classification (HUC), a framework for understanding student socialization

《New student residence unit typologies: introducing Housing Unit Classification (HUC), a framework for understanding student socialization》

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摘要: Increasing privacy demands have led to the design and construction of new and diverse universities student residences across Northern America, that prioritize private spaces for students. This paper proposes the Housing Unit Classification (HUC) using historical professional standards (ACUHO-I) to generate a nuanced unit typology of student housing. The refined typology permits engagement with additional variables of agent control, including density of usage (i.e., density) and governance (i.e., territoriality), in addition to unit facilities (i.e., bathroom, kitchen, lounge). The HUC is complemented by the analytical tool Hierarchy of Isolation and Privacy in Architecture Tool (HIPAT), together classifying levels of privacy in built space through a visual matrix. HUC allows spatial analysis of how agents acting on built space can create different feelings associated with privacy, crowding, isolation, and socialization in university housing and enables further multidisciplinary study of housing challenges using common terminology and systematic methods.