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Adekunle, T O (2019) Summer performance, comfort, and heat stress in structural timber buildings under moderate weather conditions. Smart and Sustainable Built Environment, 8(03), 220–42.

Davis, M M, Vallejo Espinosa, A L and Ramirez, F R (2019) Beyond green façades: active air-cooling vertical gardens. Smart and Sustainable Built Environment, 8(03), 243–52.

Oyewole, M O, Ojutalayo, A A and Araloyin, F M (2019) Developers’ willingness to invest in green features in Abuja, Nigeria. Smart and Sustainable Built Environment, 8(03), 206–19.

Rodriguez, B X, Simonen, K, Huang, M and De Wolf, C (2019) A taxonomy for Whole Building Life Cycle Assessment (WBLCA). Smart and Sustainable Built Environment, 8(03), 190–205.

Subasinghe, C (2019) Forsake me not: balcony spaces in codes and cues among on-campus apartment dwellers. Smart and Sustainable Built Environment, 8(03), 253–66.

  • Type: Journal Article
  • Keywords: International students; Redevelopment; Balcony-space; Codes and cues; Naturalistic inquiry; On-campus-living;
  • ISBN/ISSN: 2046-6099
  • URL: https://doi.org/10.1108/SASBE-03-2018-0016
  • Abstract:
    While some people are mindful of what a personal space that also belongs to a common façade portrays to outsiders, why other people treat this personal space as a mere utility space invisible to the public eye must be determined. International students who live in single-bedroom apartments with balconies and were mostly married were investigated regarding the meaning they attach to their balcony spaces. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach This work also hypothesized that residents of these units perceived their balconies as a liminal space that oscillates between a spatial repertoire for familiar memories and a versatile, utilitarian device for temporary storage. A naturalistic inquiry was then conducted among purposefully sampled apartment dwellers via in-depth, open-ended and semi-structured interviews. Findings While offering much needed spatial economy to dwellers, the cues and codes revealed that the balcony space could furnish a sense of membership to established social cohorts. The balcony space further brings an element of escape and ease into impecunious student life by means of its ability to offer a broad spectrum of spatial-aspatial needs that manifested in forms of personalizations and exploitations. Originality/value A knowledge gap in socio-cultural appropriation of on-campus apartments for sustainable redevelopment where the majority of consumers were married/partnered, international students has been investigated.