RESIDENCE

DESIGN PROCESS OF MAKING A SAFE RESIDENTIAL SPACE

There are five factors that make a defensible space:

2.
the residents' ability to see what is happening.

4.
substation or busy commercial area
5.

Adjoining Areas - for better security, residents obtain higher ability of

surveillance of adjoining area through designing the adjoining area

THE TYPICAL FORM

-THE TYPICAL LAYOUT OF A RESIDENTIAL UNIT.
BEDROOM

-HAVING A RECTANGULAR PLAN ENABLES UNITS TO BE

ARRANGED WITHOUT MUCH SPACE WASTAGE.

RESIDENTIAL UNIT

DINING

KITCHEN

LAUNDRY

-THE RECTANGULAR PLAN IS A VERY COMMON PLAN

WHICH DOESN'T HAVE ANY AESTHETIC IMPACT AND
UNIQUE CHARACTERISTIC.

LIVING ROOM
TOILET & BATH

FORM MANIPULATION

-CREATING A NEW FORM WILL ALLOW FOR A MORE DISTINCT

COMMUNITY.

-BY CHANGING THE RECTANGULAR PLAN TO A HEXAGONAL

PLAN, A MORE DISTINGUISHABLE AND UNIQUE PLAN IS MADE.

-THE NON-IDENTICALITY OF THE FORM GIVES A UNIQUE

IMAGEABILITY OF THE RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITY