A Study on Type and Space Composition in the Small Scale and Multi-functional Housing - focused on the cases of the Tokyo area -

소규모·다기능 고령자주택의 공간구성과 유형에 관한 연구 - 일본 동경권 사례를 중심으로 -

Recently, the importance of the living environment for elderly people and its network is increasing. At the same time, the small-scale and multi-functional apartment house in which they can live is continuously required in Japan. For these reasons, it is appearing a new type of housing, Group-Living, where one lives together with others. It represents a way of communal living which is based on service at home. There are various problems such as felicity of each space, connections between the different areas, insufficiency of positioning on the aged welfare. Hence this research targets are grasp the present condition of Group-Living, to inquire the Space composition and types of it in Tokyo Area, and to suggest the direction of improvement of the small-scale and multi-functional apartment house for the aged.