This paper aimed to identify the awareness of residents on the green area, the important element in residential environment in apartment complex, and find out the approach to improve such awareness by extensively analyzing the satisfaction of residents in small apartment complexes, whose demand have been recently increasing, on green environment in their residential areas, suitability, and the approaches to activate the use of green spaces and to improve green spaces, as the basic research related to improvement of environment in apartment complexes and awareness on green in those complexes.
In accordance with the analysis results, the residents were generally satisfied with the green environment. In particular, the satisfaction on the dimension and quantity of green spaces was high. For the suitability of green environment in apartment complex, the residents considered resting, games or sports as the suitable activities in green areas. According to the analysis results on the awareness of residents on the approaches to activate the green environment in the complexes based on the evaluation on the satisfaction on and suitability of green environment, the residents selected the administrative and financial support as the major approaches for activation of green spaces. For improving the green environment, the major desires of residents were related to the formation of green spaces which could increase the quantity of green spaces and diversify the configuration of green spaces including increase of trees, flowering plants and trees.
This paper suggested the following approaches to improve the afforestation in apartment complexes on the basis of the analysis results. The green spaces in apartment complexes are important elements in local green environment as well as the joint property. Accordingly, it is required to introduce the financial and administrative support and the programs for increasing the participation of residents and improving their awareness in the apartment complexes. Since it is estimated that the residents will be more satisfied with the green spaces when the green spaces are more increased and diversified, it is necessary to increase the green spaces intensively around the entrances to the apartment complexes where the visual amount of green spaces can be increased and the major spaces where residents use more than other spaces. The green spaces, the common outdoor space, plays the critical roles in forming the community of residents. Thus, the major activity space in the apartment complexes needs to be designed to enable diverse age groups to use such space.