A Comparative Analysis on the School Building Area per Student for the Revision of School Facility Standard

Abstract

The existing school facility recommendations enacted in 1997 has not been suitable for current school curriculum. The objective of the paper is to present the school building area reflecting the current education policies and curriculum. This paper firstly reviewed previous school facility recommendations through literature review. Secondly, the statistical approach was carried out for analyzing the present situation of school building area by using statistical database of Korean Educational Development Institute. The paper did the field investigation and questionnaire. And, the final step proposed the school building area standards(minimum, optimum, maximum) by space program using Nelson model. The contents of analyzing space organization are 'entry and placement, outdoor space', 'space program' and 'phase structure and organization of unit space'.