%0 Journal Article %T The effect of the shape of architectural design on the users on the example of the author’s concepts and designs of housing complexes between 2010–2018 %A Olenderek, Joanna %A Olenderek, Maciej %J Housing Environment %V 2019 %R 10.4467/25438700SM.19.020.10951 %N 27/2019 %P 61-70 %K Architecture, project, multi-family buildings, passive building %@ 1731-2442 %D 2019 %U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/srodowisko-mieszkaniowe/article/the-effect-of-the-shape-of-architectural-design-on-the-users-on-the-example-of-the-authors-concepts-and-designs-of-housing-complexes-between-2010-2018 %X The article describes the issue of the effect of the concept design and urban plan on human behaviour. The authors, reviewing their projects from the last decade, present the mechanism of creating logic in shaping space and cubature, contained in minimal utility space and maintaining the maximal scale of using the rules of balanced design. The objects reviewed are: detached and duplex houses, single buildings supplementing existing housing complexes, infill buildings and multi-family building residential area. Everything was designed to be energyefficient. The result of this study is the attempt to evaluate the influence of the author’s architectural determinism (in various spatial situations and object structures) on the communities which use them.