LIVING SPACES

For the last many years, Metro Valley has been involved in understanding the needs and requirements of people from their homes. Considerable research has been conducted in three major cities across sections of people of various age groups and educational backdrops. The effort is to evolve a guideline to assist people in taking the right decisions while choosing a home – their most important and sought after status symbol in their lives. Our study has researched people's disenchantment and frustration with their current living conditions in countries across the globe. The effort is to create an easy to use matrix that can help people in deciding which aspects of their requirements are getting fulfilled through the products that they evaluate in the marketplace.

Focus Areas

• Peoples preference between low and high rise residences
• Global pattern of issues with High Rise Apartment living
• Issues of noise, safety, security, access and parking in apartment living
• Peoples anxieties and expectations during selecting their homes
• How to enhance social capital and interactivity amongst apartment owners
• Creating standards for good indoor environment for residences
• Importance of window designs in residential apartments
• Relation between spatial configuration, apartment organization and usable living area
• Tradeoffs between thermal comfort and better visibility apartments
• Creating a guideline for selection of residential apartments
• How to foster community living experience in high rises
• Development of a buyer oriented framework for apartment selection