A Study on the Modification of Spatial Design to Enhance the Adaptive Environment

(Background and Purpose) Contemporary spatial design is excessively formalistic and structural. If it is assumed that the result of spatial design is divided into a representative part and a None-Representative part, which is a representational result, having the excuse of efficiency. In the future, space will have a paradigm of diversity based on differences(None-Representative point of view). This study tries to examine space modification as a methodology to achieve the diversity. In order to enhance an adaptive environment, design planning that emphasizes the perspective of modification based on variable characteristics is required, and the purpose of this study is to prove that the modification of spatial design has a value as an alternative space. (Methods) In order to raise the value of the adaptive environment, this study first organized the academic theories of related concepts, and conducted a spatial design perspective study on modification as a related study. Next, based on it, it tried to derive the characteristics of the physical, non-physical, and human elements of the modification of spatial design, and as a result, six characteristics of 'Responsive characteristic, 'Module characteristic', 'Adaptable characteristic', 'Integrative characteristic', 'Space-saving characteristic', and 'Opened characteristic' were derived and analyzed. With it, the framework of case analysis was constructed from the perspective of spatially variable elements, and a related analysis study was conducted. Based on the results, it intended to discuss spatial directions. (Results) As mentioned above, space modification for the enhancement of adaptive environment can be analyzed to six characteristics as mentioned above(Responsive characteristic, Module characteristic, Adaptable characteristic, Integrative characteristic, Space-saving characteristic, and Opened characteristic), and this appears as a spatial design methodology through usability-based detailed characteristics of place modification (continuity, mobility, changeability, temporality, placeness, variability, diversity, relationship, and complexity). As a result of case analysis based on it, it suggested the linked value of detailed spatial elements of design modification and the enhancement of adaptive environment. (Conclusion) In the study of the field and direction of spatial design, it demonstrated the value of the enhancement of adaptive environment, and tried to organize it into a framework. In addition, it suggested the extended value of the analysis framework, based on which the possibility of various researches was proposed. In the future, it is suggested that the study of the modification of spatial design of the adaptive environment can lead to the study of the re-appropriation system based on the demands of a space user.