Notes on the Psychological Basis of Environmental Design: The Right-Left Dimension in Apartment Floor Plans

In: Environment and behavior: eb ; publ. in coop. with the Environmental Design Research Association, Band 9, Heft 1, S. 125-135

Abstract

An experiment was conducted to determine right-left preferences in apartment floor plans. Subjects presented mirror image pairs of floor plans demonstrated a strong tendency to select those floor plans with the living room in the far right, rather than the far left, corner. A theoretical interpretation and suggestions for future research are discussed.