Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is an early onset neurodevelopmental condition whose influence often extends across the life course, including persistent differences in social communication, repetitive behavioral patterns, and atypical sensory modulation. For many autistic people, support remains necessary in adulthood; consequently, co residence with family and long term caregiving become common living arrangements. In this context, housing functions as everyday care infrastructure: circulation clarity, the controllability of sensory triggers, and the foreseeability of spatial relationships may shape routine emotional stability and behavioral organization, while also affecting caregivers' workload and recovery margins. Existing design discussions related to ASD have largely focused on rehabilitation and special education settings, whereas ordinary co residential housing is often treated through general recommendations rather than a derivable and transferable spatial model. To avoid conflating spatial claims with clinical efficacy, this paper is positioned as conceptual design research. It synthesizes needs and literature informed insights, translates principles into spatial control logics, develops a conceptual spatial scheme, and checks internal coherence through scenario based validation using a daily routine script. The contribution is an operational framework linking low stimulus variable management, spatial foreshadowing for route legibility and predictability, function first organization with scripted use, and a replicable site selection model, offering a practical pathway for healing oriented residential design for ASD families.

Xinyue Xiao. Lifelong Residence Oriented Home Design for Autism Spectrum Disorder Informed by Spatial Foreshadowing and Predictability. The Frontiers of Society, Science and Technology (2026), Vol. 8, Issue 1: 104-110. https://doi.org/10.25236/FSST.2026.080115.

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