PSYCHOLOGICAL SCALES OF THE VISUAL PERCEPTION OF SPACE VOLUMES : A study on the perception of volume in architectural visual frameworks・3

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to measure people's visual perception of the space size, particularly concerning to its relation to the surfaces constituting a space. In this paper the effects of the space continuity which is varied according to varity of partitions on the perception of volume were considered on the basis of supplemental experiments. And then the scales about the perception of volume were composed based on the results obtained by experiments. Finally, applicability of the scales to real space was investigated. The Summary of the results are as follows. (1) Divisional degree of visual space made by psartitions has high correlation with the extent of the partition, and that the part of the partition lower than eye level is more effective than the upper part. (2) Within the limits of this experiment, the degree of the division of visual space cannot be considered to have immediate effect on the perception of visual frameworks. (3) The scales about perception of volume were composed into a form of multiple regression equation. (4) According to the observation on people in walking, the direction of the visual line is not so frequently turned. (5) The field of vision in real spaces take various shapes according to the forms of visual composition of spaces, but the changes are not extreme.