| 요약2 |
The branded apartments, which have appeared in the Korean housing market since the end of 1990s, have demonstrated diverse changes by presenting a strategy such as own unique branding as well as differentiation from the simply standardized apartments in the past.
The objectives of this study include to analyze the area ratio of each room or space per unit plan and to investigate the characteristics of spatial configuration with regard to the branded apartments of the 2000s when those apartments with a unique branding become to expand on a large scale, thereby identifying a tendency of the branded apartments from the perspective of housing plan. In this context, this study collected the floor plan drawings of 323 apartments at 45 apartment complexes in South Korea for the apartment brands of the top 10 construction companies in terms of the construction contract amount. Afterwards, this study analyzed their characteristics by classifying the spatial structure of apartments into the number of rooms, the number of bays, floor types of household, and types of living room placement.
In results of analysis, 3∼4LDK and 3∼4BAY showed the highest rate in a household type, most of households were a polygonal form, which is completely different from the conventional rectangular types in terms of floor plan, and the living room placement was mostly in the corner of a household, which is the highest rate. In addition, the analysis results on the area dividing pattern for each room revealed distinct characteristics by size of households, for instance, small-sized households were characterized with a hallway, medium-sized households emphasized the functionality of a living room and large-sized households were also characterized with duplicated living rooms as well as spatial isolation by each living room.
Based on the outcomes of this study, we were able to know that the branded apartments in the 2000s have deviated from the floor type of conventional apartments and exhibited diverse floor configurations that reflect various needs from customers. Furthermore, it is believed that the outcomes of this study can be utilized as a fundamental data for floor plan of apartments in the future by comparative studies for the branded apartments supplied after 2010. |