2017 Volume 53 Issue Supplement2 Pages S700-S702
Japan have sliding door culture since ancient times. Although the modern residential door is normal leaf door mostly, but in the hospital, welfare facilities, etc. sliding door is the mainstream. The sliding door doesn't moving around the center of gravity forward and backward, because the action which open or close the door is very little, the burden on the body is also very small. In addition, compared with the leaf door, it is does not require space when open or close sliding door, neither cause obstruction even if keep it open. Therefore, in the hospital and welfare facilities, sliding door as the mainstream. Switches of doors and other daily actions, accompanied by people's basic applied action such as walking, standing, sitting and grasping. Such actions must be accompanied by the movement of the body. On the other hand, there is rare research on the application of motion theory in the architectural space of human life.
