This research is to examine the contents of current operating conditions of existing college facility spaces through the evaluation model as a means of responding to the colleges’ crisis phenomenon. Through the practical approach, the problems and c...
This research is to examine the contents of current operating conditions of existing college facility spaces through the evaluation model as a means of responding to the colleges’ crisis phenomenon. Through the practical approach, the problems and causes were approached in aspects of architectural planning.
Specifically, among college operation policies set in historical backgrounds and circumstances for survival, inspections of facility space standards distributed quantitatively and the phenomenon of current operating conditions were examined. And its purpose was placed on clarifying the structural contradiction through scale analysis and evaluation of space operation along with searching the appropriate course of legal distribution.
The research method was as follows. First, the contents of the qualitative aspects were set as a concept along with putting a proposition from a supposition as a proposal problem; the quantitative supposition(concept) was decided with the developed contents as subjects on the qualitative basis while passing the following discussion process; and chose a technical research method with a form of verifying it.
The content of the set research is the following.
1) The change progression of the student population was studied. As a result, the student change progression according to the rate of student entrance applications over 10 years was found to be decreasing yearly overall; even though there were differences among departments. Especially, an Empirical Study was performed on the rate of students entering into the next academic level by individual schools, on the problem of demands according to the current condition of space possessed by each department, on the demand of a facility space for each department, and on the problem of the actual condition of facility scale following curriculum contents.
2) To resolve the problem, evaluation models and its detailed clauses that will be applied were selected. at first, 4 clauses; functional, spacial, esthetic, and safe; were selected, and model factors with 18 inclinations of 5-4-4 after it. Among them, evaluation models about aspect of spacial operations were conducted in the functional model while only 2 axis regarding application method of spacial measurement fit for spacial area calculations were taken as the target in the scale model. As a result, the rate of use, remnant, light-transmission, and occupancy for the former while evaluation models called time-space dimension, planning dimension, and life dimension for the later were selected and were applied as models for examining the phenomena about current conditions of spacial usage based on these.
3) Problems about the standards of college facility spaces and the suitability of architectural planning were examined. Regarding this, a contradiction regarding the method of area calculation was revealed. As a result, it was discovered that the rate of idle space is high because the usage rate is low due to contradictions about the method of calculating area and operating curricula. In the result of the above finished research, it shows that colleges will set the direction of expanding, rebuilding, and establishing facilities in the future; and conflict-free college climates are formed according to the legality of environmental and spacial distribution and composition and according to the high-level of college facilities which fit the new era of welfare improvement as well as the controlling method for rising registration fees for area for experimentation, practices, and lectures. And it is also expected to be a guide for biological plans which will be used in deciding more effective investment methods and priority orders, in the financial aspect above all.
The Confrontation Issue of Colleges
Entering into the 21 century, domestic colleges came to confront the era of crisis. This phenomenon is; first: a student insufficiency phenomenon. Second: financial oppression, Third: lax operation. Fourth: structural contradiction. Fifth: inferior educational environment. Sixth: extreme competition.
Such causes are seen as first, insufficient student numbers due to low birth rate, student effluence to centralize toward leading colleges, rise of international studies, insufficient professors, lack of equipments, governmental interference, and global economic recession. Second, such phenomena tend to get larger in the future because the causes are anxiety of crisis and extreme conflicts followed by the extreme competition among colleges, registration fee freeze, domestic influx of foreign colleges, and topped students’ autonomy.
As a result, colleges will begin to decrease in quality, and this will reach to becoming a national problem. On the first level, colleges have placed their purpose on improving educational environments and securing professors as a means against these phenomena, and it is being linked to a financial oppression without any type of plan.
Colleges are becoming more inferior educational environments following the removal of decrepit facilities, constant demands of facility spaces, partial distribution of space, abstract challenge of international competition, and planless school operations.
In this background, this research claims that colleges’ policies should be established and executed on the basis of adjusting work according to the overall college facility examination and its plans and methods, and not with previous ways.
For this, improvements on new curriculum and courses, decisions of professors and students, financial operating plans according to it, expansion of facilities, and a distribution of necessary spaces will be needed. When examining these circumstances, the crisis is getting heavier because colleges set their purposes according to policies which drive colleges into autonomy and competition.
General colleges, excluding those top colleges that are outcome based and equipped with the financial power, should set the direction for utility plans while going to colleges with the mind of management policies and proceeding into the next level in alignment with it.
It is seen that new planning establishment of policies should be prioritized based on more internal administrative/financial repletion than exterior ones.
In order for this to happen, it is thought that each department requires reexamination and readjustment in many areas according to internal inspections.