Recently, the proportion of single-person households has been increasing worldwide. In Korea, single-person households have also become the main form of households, breaking away from typical 3-4 households due to various reasons such as an aging popu...
Recently, the proportion of single-person households has been increasing worldwide. In Korea, single-person households have also become the main form of households, breaking away from typical 3-4 households due to various reasons such as an aging population and an increase in divorce rates.
However, the landscaping field in the residential complex is still being created in a typical type of furniture. As landscaping has a great influence on the satisfaction of residents in the spatial planning of residential complexes and is directly related to their health, the need for research on the importance and satisfaction of landscaping factors in residential complexes for single-person households has increased.
The purpose of this study is to identify landscaping factors that take into account the characteristics of single-person households in the residential complex through the analysis of the importance and satisfaction of landscaping factors in the residential complex, and to provide basic data that can be referenced from the design and planning stage when creating landscaping in small and medium-sized apartment complexes where single-person households are the main ones in the future.
The method of this study was to derive design elements by setting evaluation indicators through a theoretical review and a review of previous studies, and then to conduct a survey on residents in residential complexes with a large number of single-person households. After that, by constructing the survey results as raw data, analysis of variance, multiple regression analysis, t-test, and correlation between the importance and satisfaction of landscape factors considering the characteristics of single-person households were conducted as follows.
First, there are five types of characteristics that should be considered for the evaluation of the importance satisfaction of landscaping factors considering the characteristics of single-person households: factor characteristics, socio-cultural characteristics, landscape/natural environmental characteristics, and psychological characteristics.
Second, the residents in the target area were mainly women in their 30s, without office workers or pets, and the residence period was often more than 10 years. Regardless of the season and day of the week, residents mainly used the walking space in the evening for relaxation and walking. In addition, those in their 70s and older showed the lowest purpose of use for interaction with neighbors, but those in their 70s and older showed interaction with neighbors as the main purpose of use, suggesting the need to create a space for interaction with neighbors in their 70s and older and a space for individuals in their 20s and 60s in consideration of the characteristics of each class.
Third, among the descriptive statistical design elements, exercise space, walking space, rest space, and green space were selected as factors with high importance and satisfaction. On the other hand, both satisfaction and importance of the hydroponic space and the square space were low, suggesting the need to replace it with a landscape space mainly used by residents.
Fourth, as a result of the IPA analysis, it was found that the emphasis should be placed on "shrubs and paper plants" and "stability" in the introduction of landscaping factors considering the characteristics of single-person households in the residential complex, suggesting the need to create planting patterns in the complex as sub-plants for flowers, flowers, and shrubs rather than the main sections. In addition, it was judged that it would be necessary to introduce landscaping factors that provide psychological stability considering the characteristics of single-person households in the landscape design and planning stage of small and medium-sized residential complexes.
Fifth, as a result of satisfaction according to the characteristics and usage behavior of the user, there were differences in satisfaction according to age, occupation, distance to use, frequency of use, season of use, and day of use. In particular, those in their 70s and older showed high satisfaction with landscape planting and landscape/natural environmental characteristics, suggesting the need to create green and rest spaces in consideration of the characteristics of each target class.
Sixth, as a result of the analysis of the relationship between satisfaction and usage behavior, it was confirmed that "factor characteristics," "socio-cultural characteristics," "tidal vegetation characteristics," "scape/natural environmental characteristics," and "psychological characteristics" did not affect overall satisfaction.