Housing/Home Need Identification

House/Home is more than a shelter

·         It must meet all universally acceptable standard

·         It must meet its peculiar locational requirement

·         It must be customized in design and construction

·         It must reflect the peculiar

·         It must reflect the peculiar psychology of the occupants

 

House is a building that is constructed for residential purpose. The general tendencies among would be home owners is to erect a dream house whenever they intend acquiring a home either through mortgage purchase or self-development. However, in most cases would be home owners either over estimated or underestimated their need vis-à-vis their budget limit, which in most cases culminated to project dispute, huge debt burden and abandonment of home projects.

 

Five Living Needs Area

The following are the basic five living need o a couple

1.      Food Preparation

2.      Dining

3.       Living and recreation(indoor)

4.      Bathing-Laundry

5.      Sleeping

All the above activities need to be accommodated depending on the size of the family. The rate at which the size of the space required to accommodate the afore-listed  need change (increase or decrease) depend  on the phase of the life cycle of the particular family.

If the family intends to have three children maximum we can watch out for the following scenario.

At first the family is made up of a man and wife the need in the five areas above may be contained in a sleeping area a bath, a living area basically. Then at the arrival of the first baby. There may be need for a storage area and imminent need for extra sleeping area. At the arrival of second child the all the five areas of living needs shall be needed. At point the family living need shall remain stable for a long time until the next phase of the life cycle. The phase when the first family leaves home, it shall bring about decreasing need in the house because the family size is reduce to four persons.

This shall continue till every child leaves and the family return to original starting point of two persons. The last phase may be when, through death one of the spouse leaves, then the need are less than it was at the beginning.