공공북카페의 공간특성과 이용행태 분석

Abstract

The number of cafes as one of the typical ‘the Third place’ has been dramatically increased. Multi-purpose cafes include functions of the workplace, library, showroom, shop, and gallery. Some typical activities in cafes are working or conversation. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between the physical characteristics of book cafes and user’s behavioral patterns adjacent to public municipal office areas. For this study, an unobtrusive direct observation method was employed in two cases. Data analysis was conducted to identify physical characteristics (circulation, spatial layout, furniture arrangement) and interior design features (image, shape, material finishes, color, lighting, and natural elements) and behavioral types (conversation, rest, reading, work, and waiting). The target area, which was an idle space in front of the district office’s civil service office, was created as a public book cafe and turned into rest and cultural space freely available to residents and district office employees, and various activities were observed. When a cafe area is combined with a book library, visitors are scattered and use evenly throughout the whole area, while the cafe zone is separated from the library areas, more visitors prefer to staying cafe zone. Duration time may be related to furniture arrangement rather than spatial openness or separation. Social activities such as conversation more frequently took place in open and secured with privacy. Individual visitors for work usually occupied separated and more enclosed areas.