jismart2019027: "Research on the Space Components at Evacuation Shelters — Transparency of Partition and Ceiling, and its Combinations —"

Abstract

Because remarkable natural disasters have occurred frequently in recent years in Japan, the improvement of the quality of the evacuation living environment is an urgent problem. Previous studies on lives in evacuation centers in Japan point out the lack of privacy as one of the serious problems. This study examined the relationship between the transparency of the surfaces set as a walls or ceilings and the feelings of evacuees of the temporary small spaces installed in the evacuation center. The impression evaluation experiment with the SD method was carried out, using the actual size models in which nine kinds of small space can be set. Each space was composed of the ceiling and the partitions, each of which has a different specification of transparency (cardboard, translucent
plastic cardboard and no surface). After a multiple comparison test, the result suggested that the lower the transparency of partitions, the higher the evaluation value on daily activities, privacy, and comfort, while the lower the evaluation on the size and brightness of the space, and the evaluation items affected by the transparency of the ceiling differs according to the combination with the specification of partitions.