New student residence unit typologies: introducing Housing Unit Classification (HUC), a framework for understanding student socialization

Not Your Parents’ Dorm Room: Changes in Universities’ Residential Housing Privacy Levels and Impacts on Student Success

“…To address the need for a multi-level quantitative analysis of levels of privacy and socialization in the student living units, this paper proposes a method to examine the built environment using HIPAT and HUC together to measure changes in privacy in student residences. Implementation of McCartney and Rosenvasser’s (2022a, 2022b) HIPAT and HUC tools provides designers, researchers, and administrators with an overview of the sociability and privacy conditions of specific residences, such as architectural depth, quantifying the areas of each privacy level, and the prominent HUC types in a specific building. Administrators and social scientists would benefit from a research mechanism that presents the variety of living unit types offered, and, if combined with other sources—such as income and rent—encourages policies to address access to affordable and social oriented residences.…”

“…The quantitative privacy analysis for this investigation uses the HIPAT method to measure privacy levels to identify primary and secondary territories in student residence living units (McCartney & Rosenvasser, 2022a) by area. The HUC range of typologies compares the variances of privacy levels across student experiences (McCartney & Rosenvasser, 2022b). Analysis of the data followed the methodology of ordinary least squares regression.…”

“…Housing Unit Classification (HUC). The Housing Unit Classification (HUC) is a housing unit taxonomy developed by McCartney and Rosenvasser (2022b) that focuses on agent control, privacy control hierarchy, and provision of facilities for each unit in an empirical methodology (Table 1). Focusing on the typical necessities of student residences-sleeping, eating, studying, cooking, socializing, bathroom use, and personal cleaning-the living unit is defined (1) spatially, by inclusion of spaces for sleep, study, hygiene, eating (cooking and dining), and lounging within the unit; and (2) via agent control and density, by utilizing the HIPAT to determine the hierarchy and level of privacy for each of the spaces (McCartney & Rosenvasser, 2022a).…”