Abstract
This study aims to grasp actual conditions and residential consciousness in shared living through the residents’ life stories, and to consider planning aspects of apartment shares. The SOCIAL APARTMENT NAKANOSHIMA SAPPORO is the renovated existing building. Each resident’s life story can be divided into two attributes; the orientation acquired by life experiences and the recognition of shared living. As the result of the analysis of relationship between these attributes and spatial characteristics, the following points have become clear; 1) The common space is given public meaning by coupled with residents’ orientation and spatial characteristics. The former is the orientation of the human relation in an appropriate distance, the latter is the independence of the common space from residents’ own rooms. 2) Residents give high evaluations of the common space where they can come across something new. This evaluation is related to the respect for residents’ communication by administrators. 3) Administrators visit the common space frequently and they cope with problems in each case. This management method contributes to residents’ utilization of the common space.
