Abstract
The purpose of this study is to obtain the significant semantic dimensions underlying people's responses to the outdoor architectural space on campuses and to show the validity of these dimensions. Five experiments were performed according to the designs using the combination of the three experimental conditions such as different subject groups, different modes of representations of physical environments (e.g. color video tape taken at eye lerel, real environments) and different sets of stimuli. In the experiments subjects rated the represented environments on 52 seven-point bipolar adjective scales. The intercorrelation matrices of adjective scales were analyzed by the method of principal components and were rotated to direct oblimin solutions and orthogonal procrustes solutions. From the collected results eight semantic dimensions came out, which could be interpreted as Evaluation, Artificiality, Organization, Complexity, Density, Potency, Size and Activity.
