Future Perspectives of Public Facility Re-organization Based on Architectural Planning

Abstract

Every local government will eventually shift to a phased reorganization of public facilities. Getting consensus among local residents, however, on merely reductions of facility-occupied floors is expected to be difficult. That makes gaining residential consensus on how to reduce facility floor space a crucial task. As the first part of the solution required to accomplish this task—reducing facility floor space while maintaining or even raising the standard of public services—seems contradictory, it will be necessary to study optimization methods based on a thorough review of the one-to-one relationship between buildings and services. Another reason that gaining consensus will be difficult is the lack of “vision of a town's future.” Furthermore, the reorganization of public facilities cannot be unrelated to the mid- to long-term future of a municipality or region. So, it is valid to plan and execute municipal contraction and facility floor reduction by extrapolating backward from the “vision of a town's future.”