LIVING SPACES

For the last three 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. The work is currently underway and is expected to be completed in another six months time.

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