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Theme B: Creating a livable, healthy and environmentally viable citiesA STUDY ON THE INFLUENCE OF THE SEMI-PUBLICSPACE ON RESIDENTS’ WELL BEING IN THE HIGH-RISEMIXED-USE HOUSING IN KOREAJAEHYUK LEE 1 , HAESEONG JE 21Ph D, Sustainable Building Research Centre, Hanyang University, Ansan, Korea2Ph D, Professor, Dept. of Architecture, Ajou University, Suwon, KoreaABSTRACT: The super high-rise mixed-use housing is different from the traditional apartment inamenities and in architectural design. An example of variance is the larger semi-public space locatedin the lower floors. This study aimed: to find a correlation between physical characteristics of thesemi-public space and residential individual well-being and to verify the correlation between thesemi-public space and the individual well-being when comparing well-being of the super high-risemixed-use housing with that of traditional apartment housing. The procedures used in the researchconsisted of four phases. First, a survey is performed on four super high-rise mixed-use housing andfour traditional apartment housing to research the resident’s individual well-being. And second phaseis to build and evaluate the well-being performance model for the super high-rise mixed-use housing.Results of research are as follows: 1) The comfortable environment influences the psychologicalstability and health felt by the residents more than to just perform physical exercise in the semipublicspace. 2) The residents in the super high-rise mixed-use housing seek psychological safetyand comfort in the semi-public space, and interact with the neighbors by participating in exercisesand leisure activities. Exercising is the main activity of leisure. 3) When comparing between thesuper high-rise mixed use housing and the traditional apartment housing, the residents of the superhigh-rise mixed-use housing are found to be generally more satisfied in health, leisure, and safety inthe semi-public space, but the problem with the case sampling makes this finding unreliable. Theresult identifies the difference in residential value.Keywords: Super high-rise mixed-use housing, Individual Well-Being, Semi public space1. INTRODUCTIONFollowing Korea’s industrialization, multi-family housing, which was introducedwith the aim of resolving housing shortages caused by urban populationconcentration, grew steadily after the 1970s; it reached 5.5 million households in2001, representing 47.8% of the country’s total housing, and has established itselfas a representative residence type of urban residents. As urban populationconcentration was intensified, multi-family housing developed into high-risebuildings beginning in the late 1970s, and in recent years, a considerable numberof super high-rise apartments at over 30 stories have been built. 32 complexesinvolving super high-rise mixed-use housing at over 30 stories have already been549