Micro-apartments: Achieving spatial comfort in substandard housing conditions

Micro-housing means living in substandard conditions, housing units that are very small size. Such apartments usually have only the most basic contents, such as rooms for rest, kitchens and bathrooms, they do not meet all functionality aspects, because users consciously choose to forego certain needs order live a location or lower maintenance costs. The research considers characteristic examples of micro-apartments analyses reference literature, extract design principles from extensive material, through which it is possible achieve spatial comfort minimal dimensions. aim consider systematize important can higher level conditions micro-housing. paper examines view limit range microhousing personal experience convenience space, determined by how well meets users' physiological needs. According results research, minimum an apartment, necessary rest area (bed), with possibility using common space food preparation hygiene, lowers default interpreting term "micro-housing".