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The Communal Courtyard
TYPE 1: PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE COURTYARD
- The public openness allows the residents to meet people from the whole neighborhood.
- The attractiveness can raise awareness about community living and bring interest to it.
- The diversity of social settings on the whole courtyard is wider because with a public courtyard comes different programs and there is also public functions on the ground floor of the building.
- The courtyard is overlooked from the living units so the residents are always aware of what is happening and it easily attracts them.
TYPE 2: COMMON ONLY COURTYARD
- The residents are provided with an intimate outdoor space that they could use as their own private garden.
- The intervention offers more freedom than in the type 1 as the whole courtyard is accessible without any border.
- The whole courtyard can be considered as an extension of the common space.
- The insecurity problem are minor as there isn’t any public accessibility.
- The transition from the front common to the intimate back allows people to give each space different meanings (Alexander, et al., 1977, p610).