Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns altered people’s perception of the relationship between indoor and outdoor living spaces, pushing the home balcony concept into new levels of ambiguity. Particularly in European contexts, people’s perspectives on its existence, functions, features, and borders are now unclear territory. Therefore, our study intends to assess the balcony design features and activities during pandemic times through the lens of selected key informants’ preferences in Lisbon and Warsaw, resorting to a post-occupancy evaluation of an online survey and a subsequent statistical analysis using a Mixed Model Analysis of Variance. Differences in cultural/social background, climate, and geography appear to be irrelevant during the pandemic, as both locations’ respondents show similar outcomes concerning balcony preferences. Activities previously practised elsewhere are now preferential to occur on balconies, such as having meals, gathering people, or reading and writing. The study concludes that the importance of home balconies increased during the pandemic, demanding an update of its design features to accommodate the newly rediscovered activities with direct implications on its users’ health and life quality.
Funder
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Subject
Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes,Computer Science Applications,Process Chemistry and Technology,General Engineering,Instrumentation,General Materials Science
Reference49 articles.
1. Gropius, W. (1956). Scope of Total Architecture, Routledge|Taylor & Francis Group.
2. Gehl, J. (2011). Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space, Island Press. [6th ed.].
3. Millán-Jiménez, A., Herrera-Limones, R., López-Escamilla, Á., López-Rubio, E., and Torres-García, M. (2021). Confinement, Comfort and Health: Analysis of the Real Influence of Lockdown on University Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, 18.
4. Isolation, Quarantine, Social Distancing and Community Containment: Pivotal Role for Old-Style Public Health Measures in the Novel Coronavirus (2019-NCoV) Outbreak;Freedman;J. Travel Med.,2020
5. COVID-19 and Living Space Challenge. Well-Being and Public Health Recommendations for a Healthy, Safe, and Sustainable Housing;Gola;Acta Biomed.,2020
Cited by
8 articles.
订阅此论文施引文献
订阅此论文施引文献,注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献,订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献