Unit Residential Apartment Development In Dalian City

Since the Reform, China's urban housing construction has stepped into a new era. Housing has evolved from a basic consumption to an enjoyable product, from a quantity consumption to a quality product, from a distributed consumption to a marketable product. People will no longer be satisfied by the "dumb", "coarse" and "unfriendly" shelters. The market is calling for more diverse and more user-friendly housing. So far, most of the housing, distributed or purchased, are being remodeled, reequipted and repaired, which incurs immense waste. There is still a big room for improvement on housing design. To better understand and better serve the needs of residents, China's architect ought to have more insights of the marketHousing design involves many fields such as economics, sociology, psychology, ergonomics and architecture of course. Different approaches can be used to understand needs of residents. For example, from factor of income level and availability of loaning; from the family structure; from the psychological need for the sunshine in the room; from the convenience of kitchen and restroom. To combine good physical form and comfortable atmosphere into a housing design is ideal, and this relies on down-to-earth data collection and study.Living status means the reflection of residents' behavior in their residence space. Through data collection andstudy, analysis can be made in regard to the relationship between a residence's physical space and its users' behavior. Methods include survey and interview. Living status study can identify the conflict between users' needs and housing layouts and thus can shed a light on design renovation.Places in China differ greatly from each..other in climate, environment, economy, custom and tradition. ?./ Borrowing some of the relevant theories, documents available domestically and abroad, the paper is based on the living status study on Dalian area's high rise housing sector and trying to identify the general shortcomings of the interior space of many residence layouts and is concluded by some design proposals and suggestions.