THE SEPARATION AND OVERLAPPING OF “ONE-PERSON ACTIVITIES” AND “MULTI-PERSON ACTIVITIES”: Housing design for financially independent one-person households (1)

The authors aim to propose guidelines for housing design for one-person households, which currently account for thirty percent of total households in Japan. The findings are as follows. First , at home, one-person households separate some activities spatially, whereas they do not mind overlapping other activities. Second, having moved the activity of looking after unfamiliar guests to the outside, one-person households invite only familiar guests into their homes. Third, the authors propose housing design for one-person households that consists of a living room with a combined dining room and kitchen and a room doubling as a storage room.