Journal of Architecture and Planning (Transactions of AIJ)
Online ISSN : 1881-8161
Print ISSN : 1340-4210
ISSN-L : 1340-4210
STUDY ON CONVERSION OF UNUSED SPACE TO COMMON SPACE AIMING TO IMPROVE THE UTILIZATION RATE IN PUBLIC FACILITIES
In case of Carillon House in Miyoshi city
Yuya SATOChie SHIMIZUHaruya ISHIZAKIHiroko YAMAMOTO
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2020 Volume 85 Issue 769 Pages 579-589

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 In April 2014, Japanese government requested municipalities to formulate “Public Facilities Comprehensive Management Plan (PFCMP)”, which is the plan for comprehensive management of public facilities. In response to this request, many municipalities are considering ways to manage public facilities. Public facilities with multiple functions are important assets for citizens, and citizens should use them actively. Active use of public facilities, which are public spaces, is an important point of view. On the other hand, rate of utilization public facilities that are inconvenient for citizens is low. In the future, the importance of facility management will increase, and municipalities should consider about public facilities to increase the number of users. This study focused on public facilities which aren’t used actively, and unused space were opened for public to exam whether users would increase.

 Carillon House in Miyoshi City, Aichi Prefecture is an object of this study. Carillon House opened as the commercial facility in 1988 and reopened as the public facility in 2013. Carillon House has Event Square and Common Room which are rental rooms, child care support space, and library space. About 30% of citizens live in Miyoshigaoka district where Carillon House is located.

 Between April 2017 and March 2018, there were many times the rental rooms in Carillon House had not been lent out. In other words, there were many unused rooms. Especially, rate of utilization of Event Square was less than 10% in one year.

 In this study the rental rooms opened for free as public space to solve such problems. In addition, the number of users was counted. As the result, the large number of users were under the age of 19, and many users wanted to improve the facilities owned by Carillon House, such as the installation of wireless LAN and vending machine. This study clarified that users of Carillon House would like to use freely for learning, eating and drinking. Furthermore, the demand for using Carillon House during the daytime on weekday is small, this issue should be solved.

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