유아교육공간 분석을 위한 공간구문론 적용방안에 관한 연구

Abstract

Early childhood is a stage of human development when preschoolers’ mental and physical growth is rapid. Early childhood education space that such preschoolers come to encounter first time is a place where infants can get involved in more physical activities. The influence of spatial attributes on humans has been known since long time ago and infants are more influenced. To analyze such phenomenon scientifically, many researches have been attempted. Many existing researches observed infants’ behaviors and classified patterns, but few researches have analyzed a direct relationship with space. Quantitative criteria for space should be set to analyze infants’ behaviors quantitatively, but such researches are few. This study applied spatial analysis methodology in space-syntax for quantifying early childhood education space. It specified coordinates in the existing convex space by considering activity inducing components, for example children’s body size, teaching aid, and desk and based on the coordinates, attempted specific region segmentation utilizing Voronoi Diagram. Our spatial analysis was attempted by targeting 4 cases. Each case was consisted of 40-50 sub areas and this number depended on space size. But there are difficulties in setting a separate standard for wide spaces in the center and this was defined as a separate space and then partitioned. As a result, it was found that indicators in space-syntax are influenced by W/D ratio of interior space. If each activity area was clearly divided by the furniture partitioning interior space, low integration and connection were observed and in case of an opened-type space, access and connection to surrounding areas was easy, thus showing high integration and connection. This study was aimed at finding a method to analyze early childhood education space quantitatively and thus deserved enough value as a research. Further studies will be able to describe a correlation between spatial attributes and infants’ behaviors by comparing with infants’ behavior information.