ACTIVITIES AND BEHAVIORS TO SELECT SEATS BASED ON USERS' GENERATION AND AFFILIATION IN LIBRARIES

Abstract

Today, libraries for users are not only a place for lending and borrowing books, but also used as a place to rest. In this research, 4 local libraries; Nisshin city library, Hekinan city library, Tahara city library and Inazawa city library located in Aichi prefecture, with different scales and services, will be used as a case study. We took questionnaire survey and observational survey of users' behaviors and activities in each library. Therefore, the research purpose will be to clarify the feature of the library considered from users' image. The details of libraries used for the case are the following. 1. Nisshin city library have open stuck area with well-lighted stairwell, providing a different contrast. Other than, are children's open stuck area, study booth, café corner, conference room and others located in the first floor. The bookshelves such as technical books are planned in the second floor. 2. Tahara city library have some courtyards, providing the intake of light. The library was enlarged as a complex with a gymnasium and the theater, a thin shape in the East-West directions. In this library, open stuck area and children's open stuck area are contiguous in the first floor. 3. Inazawa city library is located open stuck area on the second floor, and the children's open stuck area located in the first floor. children's room and the local reference library are distributed with glass screen. 4. Hekinan city library have open stuck area is located on the first floor, beside the audiovisual lounge and the study space. children's open stuck area and galleries are located on the second floor. The research will be done by the following. 1. Consider the choice reason of a library and the place depending on users' generations. 2. Analyze users' activities in libraries based on users' positions, actions and attitudes by the observational survey. 3. Analyze users' actions from time course according to the users' generation and affiliation. 4. Consider sitting behaviors of users and choice reasons of seats by the questionnaire and the observational survey. 5. Estimate the number of users in a day based on the existing research, and consider an assess model for the reading seats and the parking areas. The research results are the followings 1. The ratio of sitting behavior (sitting people / staying people) maintains the same with 60% - 65% in all time. This demand for sittings does not change in library of any place. 2. users' actions and places to stay have deflection by users' generation. Library users stay and carry out various activities in the every corner in open stuck areas. 3. When users choose a library or a place to stay, they are selecting the charm of the architectural space including "the brightness" as a reason. 4. Based on activity target of the library, we suggested the simulation model which could predict the number of reading seats using the ratio of sitting act and the seat share for library users.

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