Print Email Facebook Twitter How small can a house be? Title How small can a house be? Author Costa Branco De Oliveira Pedro, J.A. Faculty OTB Research Institute Department Housing Quality and Process Innovation Date 2010-12-31 Abstract A study about the minimum necessary net internal area of dwellings that should be established by Portuguese building regulations is presented. The following tasks were carried out: selecting the furniture and equipment necessary for each dwelling; determining the size of furniture and equipment and its typical arrangement; conceiving models of functional spaces; determining the net area of functional spaces and dwellings; and comparing results with statistics on housing construction in Portugal and with mandatory area standards used in Portugal and ten other European countries. The conclusions are that the net internal area presently set by Portuguese building regulations should be increased by 5 to 15%. The net internal area figures obtained by the study are similar to mandatory regulations established by some other European countries. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:0fae8dd8-a47a-4f4d-9f19-e5908ccbab8c Publisher iiSBE Portugal, Universidade do Minho, Instituto Superior Técnico ISBN 978-989-96543-1-0 Source PORTUGAL SB10: Sustainable development affordable to all. Chapter 3: Low cost sustainable solutions, 297-304 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2010 Costa Branco De Oliveira Pedro, J.A. Files PDF 256027.pdf 299.23 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:0fae8dd8-a47a-4f4d-9f19-e5908ccbab8c/datastream/OBJ/view