• Journal of the Korean housing association
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.141-152
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• 2004

Most elderly victims of senile dementia in Korea are cared for at home. This creates hardship for their families. Recent research suggests that the physical environment can affect the treatment of dementia. In light of these findings, a prudent approach to the design of the housing environment of family with dementia sufferers is advisable. This study aims to determine the design factors that need to be considered for the housing environment of dementia, particularly for those suffering from Alzheimer's or Cerebrovascular dementia. For this study, and in-depth qualitative investigation method was employed. Principal caregivers were interviewed using various investigative tools, including objective measures, structured and non-structured questionnaires. The investigation results suggest that the need for housing environment improvement varies with the severity and type of dementia. The housing needs in this study, is expected to promote a focus on improved design management for the environment and housing of dementia and their families. The results also suggest the establishment of a welfare policy for senile dementia victims and their families.

• Journal of the Korean housing association
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.43-51
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• 2011

This study aims to analyze the on-site improvement area of residential environment improvement project based on research results derived from the on-site and questionnaire survey in case of Daegu. The main findings are as follows. First, residents complain about delay of project completion because a long time has been passed after on-site improvement area was designated. Experts and government officials agree that a new method of development is required. Second, future development should discriminate on-site improvement area according to its level of project completion. The area should be classified into project completion areas and on-going area, and new methods, such as redevelopment, apartment-housing construction method, should be allowed. Third, for better management of on-site improvement area, laws and regulations must be ready and government's will for improvement is crucial.

• Journal of the Korean housing association
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.73-82
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• 2014

This study is to grasp the vulnerable families selected by the laws and qualification criteria on housing reformation and repair project of the Ministry of Land, Transportation and Maritime Affairs, the procedures of housing improvement projects, and the roles of superintendents, focusing on rural living and housing environment improvement. After the regional characters, housing style and structure of the recipients (the selected vulnerable families), and construction companies were closely examined by items and year, the results and problems of housing reformation and repair were diagnosed, compared and analyzed. On the basis of the results, the overall guidelines and directions of housing environment improvement for vulnerable families were suggested. Hopefully, these suggestions will be helpful for the kind of project in the future.

• Proceeding of Spring/Autumn Annual Conference of KHA
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.201-204
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• 2005

The housing environment improvement of the middle size cities is getting emphasized due to the decentralization. But, the way to improve the housing environment should be in progress without any consideration for citizen's lives or their own culture. Especially, in rural village, government has continually made political supports but extremely skeptical about the result, that is, they made improvement on living environment but failure in the living quality. This institute intends to find out cultural elements of traditional architecture are. Tradition has to make effects on the present age. It has to have great influence on the entire housing environment in addition to each architecture.

• Proceeding of Spring/Autumn Annual Conference of KHA
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.405-411
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• 2004

This paper digests the residential environment of row-income households in South-East Asia, and governmental endeavor to the squalid dwellings from the perspective of residence welfare. Two projects related to residential environment improvement, UCDO in Thailand and KIP in Philippines, are chosen for deeper study. Some findings in South-East countries' experiences are expected to instructive clues for Korea situation.

• Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.413-421
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• 2017

This study intends to conduct a thorough research and analysis on the designated temporary residential facilities for the disaster victims in order to bridge the gap between the temporary residential facilities for the disaster victims in country and city, and understand the current status of the designated temporary residential facilities for the disaster victims in rural and urban areas. As a result, the designated temporary residential facilities for the disaster victims in urban areas are bigger and have higher capacity, implying the necessity to designate facilities in rural areas that can accommodate larger number of people. As to the analysis of the representative temporary residential facilities for the disaster victims in rural areas, different regions had different types of designated facilities and the number of facilities also showed big difference depending on regions. So it is believed that local governments should improve the process and system of designating temporary residential facilities for the disaster victims.

• Journal of the Korean housing association
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.103-112
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• 2004

The object of this study is to offer a basic reference for improving students' housing into a desirable living environments at small-sized local city. To do so, this study is to analyze residential choice elements and interior environment satisfaction of students around Samcheok national university at user's point. Trough the field survey and questionnaire about students' housing, the student's residential environment is almost composed of one room type of multifamily housing. But students' housing of this type is insufficient to the housing level which they demand. To obtain the real features as theirs housing, the development of the plan type to reflect the their actual demand is necessary. The results of this study can be applied to the actual design of hiring students' housing.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.3-11
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• 2015

The urban has been improved houses and facilities as accelerating industry and society, while the rural area was inferior to the city. Furthermore, there was not a maintenance in time as ageing, and did not expect to rebuilding of using proper techniques and materials for financial reasons. This study find a way to make a revitalizing plan for appropriate real state. For this, perform a current status survey that 900 rural residences of 36 rural villages in Chungcheong area. As a result, Korean traditional structure is a half in residential type, and has poor residential conditions by comparison with western pattern. The structural type comprises two type that a pure structure and a mixed structure, and Korean traditional structure is a mixed structure more than a pure structure. It is considered continuous changes by a resident due to a pure structure was not satisfy various functions. It need appropriate plan to improve a rural residence for each characteristics.

• Korean Architects
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• no.8 s.328
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• pp.24-29
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• 1996

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.41 no.5
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• pp.609-616
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• 2021

Busan still has a lot of densely populated poor residences on sloping hills, especially in the area behind the port, which is heavily affected by plans related to port facilities. In particular, the residential area of Dong-gu, Busan, is expected to see the Bukhang Redevelopment Area, and the landscape change is expected to be significant where the residential environment improvement project is currently planned. In this study, the landscape image analysis and prediction (SD analysis and factor analysis) of the poor residential area of Dong-gu, Busan is expected to be able to organize, organize the image of the area.