Except if your sleep-awake cycle don't align. This goes horribly wrong if you are entertaining guests while your neighbours are trying to sleep, or the family upstairs is having children's saturday playtime while the doctor downstairs is trying to sleep off a 36-hour double night shift.
Re:Dear Architects: Sound Matters
by jakobegger on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @06:09AM
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Read the comment again. Your room above your bedroom is your own living room. This means that the family upstairs having a party is your own family :)
Most modern buildings with concrete ceilings have little sounds transmission to the apartment above, the most annoying sound transmission is from footsteps to the apartment below. That's why that idea works so nicely.
Unit C living space
Unit C bedrooms
Unit B living space
Unit B bedrooms
Unit A living space
Unit A bedrooms
This means that the space directly above one's bedrooms - their very own living space - was less likely to be occupied while they were sleeping. Seemed like a very ingenious design to me.
My life has taken me to live in SFHs now, so I don't really look at a lot of apartment buildings anymore, but I've never seen another building with this design.