For the location planning of agricultural structures, important factors are;
i) disposition of facility in rural region, ii) space arrangement of the facility within a site.
The purpose of this investigation, as the basic research for the studies on the location planning for agricultural structures, is to find out some data to an optimum design of space arrangement for paddy drying and processing facilities (especially, so-called “rice-center”; RC).
The results obtained were summarized as follows;
1) There were various patterns in the sites for existing facilities, and some of them were found to cause some troubles, such as the problems for worker's health and safety, or the uncomfortable living environments.
2) On these complex site patterns, the author tried to introduce a term “apparent site area”. Using this term, it became possible to compare the space constitution factors to each other.
3) Certain relations were found between the total of apparent site area and its constituting factors, and some of them expressed with the linear functions (Eq. (5), (6), and (7)).
4) It seemed properly in practice that the facility space and outdoor working space were considered as the major factors constituting the site area.
5) From the result mentioned above, the relation between site space factors was recognized in actual condition, and the basic guide for site planning was obtained.
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