‘길찾기’를 위한 공간디자인의 유형과 환경정보적 기능 - 공공청사 로비공간을 중심으로 -

Abstract

Along with improved economic level and social concern, the lobby spaces of government office buildings are gradually becoming larger and more multi-functional. As a result, very complex systems of circulation cause problem of way-finding that users have trouble in finding the destination or lose the sense of direction. Hereupon, the aim of this study is to analyze the environment-informational functions of spatial design for way-finding and to survey the present conditions or problems of lobby spaces in Korean government office buildings based on the study results to present the alternative suggestions. The spatial design for way-finding is classified into 4 types: space structuralization, area individualization, visual informationization, and building -landmark. The relationships between environment -informational functions and 4 types of spatial design for way-finding are as followed; the spatial structuralization can be analyzed with environment–informational functions such as centrality, openness, and legibility; the area individualization can be analyzed with territoriality, differentiation and convergence; the visual informationization with visibility, awareness, and discrimination; the building-landmark with directivity, identity, and perceptual access. The result of analyzing the lobby spaces in domestic government office building shows that the specialized spatial structuralization for helping way-finding, area individualization through finishes and color, and consideration of visual informationization such as sign system were shown in general. But in the environment-informational viewpoint based on the user, it is just being applied in a passive and partial manner so the way-finding at the lobby spaces in government building should still be highly improved.