The study is based on one of the examples in the parallel types of school buildings, the finger plan. The purpose is to learn the best possible usage of outdoor space between school buildings and to use it in developing the block plan and the unit pla...
The study is based on one of the examples in the parallel types of school buildings, the finger plan. The purpose is to learn the best possible usage of outdoor space between school buildings and to use it in developing the block plan and the unit plan of elementary school buildings. The study focused on 25 of the public elementary schools in Chongju(19) and chong-won(6), chung-Buk, Korea. The results were obtained after investigating the scales, characteristics, facilities and the pattern of using the outdoor space between school buildings.
First of all, on the scale of the outdoor spaces between school buildings, the distance between buildings in most of the cases spread out between 20 and 22 meters.
In terms of the ratio of the distance(D) between buildings and the length(L)of building, actually, the length is longer than the distance (L/D > 5). Hence, it can be anticipated to the stronger line of the outdoor space than buildings when considering its degree of sharpness. But, in fact, the breezeways, cores, and warehouses in outdoor space made space partitions(L/D = 2.2∼2.5) providing the new area and enclosure. Therefore, the line of outdoor space is different from what we had expected before.
In terms of the ratio of the distance(D) between buildings and the height(H) of the building, in case of the cities, the fraction of the distance to the height is between 1 and 2(1 ≤ D/H ≤ 2), and , in case of the areas smaller than cities, the distance is 2 times more than the height(D/H ≥ 2). When considering its floors, the fraction of the distance to the height of the parallel type buildings are between 1 and 1.5(1≤ D/H < 1.5) in case of 4 floors, between 1.5 and 2.0(1.5 ≤ D/H ≤ 2.0) in case of 3 floors, and more 2 (2.0 ≤ D/H) in case of 2 floors.
Moreover, in most of the cases, the facilities in outdoor space divided between buildings in the parallel types have breezeways, flower beds, water places, and warehouses almost between 20 and 22 meters(L/D = 2.2∼2.4, 1.5< D/H < 2.0). Therefore, the outdoor space providing the new area and enclosure are used frequently. Students use the area during class recess and lunch break 2 to 3 times a day. Not only the students but the teachers also usually favor the arbors and flower beds in the facilities. They also want to have facilities where they can have some time away from others such as arbors or water parks.