Class Session 12: Understanding Student Housing Needs

Class Session 12: Understanding Student Housing Needs

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Launching Design Project 3

Typical Program

  • Max Square Footage
  • Location
  • Inhabitants
    • Basic info about routine
    • Understand their lifestyle and needs
  • List of Required Spaces
    • Number of Sleeping Spaces
    • Workspace
    • Outdoor Space
  • Double-Height Space

Use Design Thinking to Identify Needs that will drive a program

Proximity

Accessibility

Walk vs. elevator

Away during the day

at classes

return in late afternoon

Needs vary by age

  • Newbies = trauma bounding
  • More experienced = more independent

Activities

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Socializing / Hanging Out - Small Groups
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Close Conversation - One on One
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Dining
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Organized Activities
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Sleeping
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Studying / Working
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Computing
  • Musical Expression
  • Hosting
  • Rollouts
  • Entertainment
    • Music
      • Out Loud
      • Organized
      • Private — Headphones
    • Read
    • Instagram / Social Media
    • Gaming
  • Laundry
  • Kitchen

UNMET NEEDS / PAIN POINTS

  • Storage in my room
  • Laundry rooms smelly - not separated, not knowing how to do
  • Dirty laundry in common room
  • Messy shared kitchen
  • Transformable space — more space when bed not needed
  • Compliance with proper sanitation
  • Study spaces — big tables — space to study
    • not inconvenience
    • not lounge
    • not computed cluster
  • Thermal comfort
    • Rooms too hot or cold
  • Noise infiltration
    • Rooms too noisy
  • Lighting
    • On when they don’t have to be
    • No switches
    • Not conducive to different ways you live
  • Social Life — Not conducive