The purpose of this study is to find out the actual situation of user-participated design of elementary and junior high schools, and the designer's opinion about it. The results are summarized as follows:
1) Design engineers of The Board of Education and architects expect the user-participated design to improve the usability of school building.
2) Architects who experienced the user-participated design expect children and community resident increase of attachment and pride to their school by user-participation.
3) Architects who experienced the user-participated design relief of anxiety about cost, consensus building and planning of user-participated design process.
