Abstract
This paper aims to clarify relations of users' satisfaction and behaviors to seat layout. Effectiveness of designed physical environment on users is important viewpoint in facility management of common space. Users' satisfaction and particular behavior observed at and around each set of seats result from the seat layout types, showing the capacity of designed physical environment ('affordance'.). In this way, lounge-type seat layout is physical setting affording various relationships of users to designed physical environment and parallel-type seat layout is efficient but doubtful in its effectiveness. This paper concludes the importance for designed physical environment to provpke users awareness of its usages by itself.
