We have been slowly but steadily enlarging our pool of apartments/cities being analyzed and this Fall, with the Global Apartments Research Group resuming its biweekly meetings, I should be able to write more about it.
The exciting news is that Romil Sheth did a fantastic data collection in his hometown of Bombay (or Mumbai) this summer. The questionnaires have already been tabulated and most of the apartments have already undergone preliminary analysis.
The chart above shows the comparison of area devoted to each function, in average, for each pool of apartments in our database.
It is worth noting the Korean emphasis (almost an obsession) with the varanda and the amount of area devoted to circulation, required to make the tri-partite private-public-private spatial arrangement feasible.
About the Brazilian apartments I have written before but it doesn’t hurt to remind the fact that the amount of social space (25.85%) is the same amount devoted to service spaces (25.70%). We shall explore that further.
And in the case of Mumbai, it seems like a very streamlined spatial partition, with a reasonable amount of social areas (the highest among the 3) and private areas (again the highest). But are the small service spaces (17% only) correlated with the fact that in 20 questionnaires, not a single male was reported spending any time in the kitchen?
More to follow
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