In recent years, as content of work and values of workers have diversified, functions required for the office have diversified. However, many of the current office are designed to rely on the experience and sense of designers.

  Therefore, it is important to build the office incorporate the viewpoints of workers.

  The aim of this study is to get effective knowledge in realizing better office environment by analyzing the free descriptions with photography by workers.

  The authors conducted Self-Photo survey applied Caption Evaluation Method to clarify the reason why a worker evaluate the place.

  After having classified the activity in the office as "Creative activities", "Processing activities", and "Refreshing activities", workers filled in following three points about good places for each activity.

1) Selected place photography 2) Satisfaction level of the place 3) The reason why evaluate the place such as 2) by free descriptions

  As a result of surveys, we pointed out the gap between intention and real plan for refresh space, and arranged the requirements of the places for each activity.

  The purpose of this study is to examine the actual conditions and user evaluation in a small-sized free address office to examine the usage and evaluation of its environment. On-site observations and the questionnaire were conducted, and the main findings are as follows: 1) Five elements such as the location of the area, layout and the furniture are main viewpoint to evaluate the office environment. The workers also have some conflicting needs for the office space, such as the calm atmosphere to concentrate their work, and also the accessibility to other workers to communicate with. 2) The seats planned for the private usage works well for the personal works, meanwhile the seats planned for the group meetings not always works successfully depends on the shape of the furniture and the location in the office. 3) Several findings are considered to be the character of the small-sized office, such as the usage of the meeting space for individual works, and the awareness of the coworker’s whereabouts in free-address area.