TABLE OF CONTENTS - The Professional Green Building Council

Theme B: Creating a livable, healthy and environmentally viable citiesOutdoor AmenityA comparative analysis of the function of environmental friendship of externalspaces found that there was no difference in residents’ satisfaction between superhigh-rise mixed-use housing and ordinary multi-family housing. With regard toresidents’ satisfaction in the categories of landscaping and green areas, relaxationin external spaces, and the comfort of external spaces, ordinary multi-familyhousing showed higher levels than an average, but the difference in the average isminimal, and T-test found that the difference in the average was insignificant.Table 8. T-test of residents’ satisfaction with environmental friendship of external spacesOverallDwellers’ occupancytime and the control offloor area(after 2002/20-40pyeong in floor area))Item Building type N Mean Sig.Landscaping andgreenareasExternalrelaxationSuper high-rise mixed-usehousing120 3.216Ordinary multi-family housing 119 3.378Super high-rise mixed-usehousing120 2.950spaces Ordinary multi-family housing 119 3.067Super high-rise mixed-useComforthousing120 3.225Ordinary multi-family housing 119 3.411Super high-rise mixed-usehousing44 3.000Landscaping andgreenareasOrdinary multi-family housing 60 3.483External Super high-rise mixed-userelaxationhousing44 2.682spaces Ordinary multi-family housing 60 3.350Super high-rise mixed-useComforthousing44 2.841Ordinary multi-family housing 60 3.4830.2140.4140.151*0.028**0.003**0.002However, in an analysis with residents’ occupancy time and floor area controlled,in all categories, residents in ordinary multi-family housing showed significanthigher levels of satisfaction than those in super high-rise mixed-use housing. Thissuggests that the external spaces of super high-rise mixed-use housing complexesare developed through the application of diverse architectural technologies, decks,565