One of a series of papers prepared by members of the American Institute of Architects Committee on School and College Architecture and by selected specialists to make laymen aware of school building problems and trends and to stimulate discussion. The article sees the educational park concept as deriving from, in its simplest form, the…

A general guide to the architect regarding the academic requirements for a chemistry facility. Subject organization is in terms of--(1) general academic building planning criteria, (2) three summaries of space required, (3) specific space requirements, and (4) functional relationship diagrams. Specific academic areas being researched include…

Seventy-seven entries comprise this general bibliography on recreation and open space. The bulk of the documents are studies and reports of land use, recreation finance, and recreation legislation throughout the United States. The listings are current, providing the latest information from 1973 through 1975. The citations are alphabetized by…

This manual describes procedures for collecting higher education building data and room data for use at the institutional level, and for compiling these data for interinstitutional exchange and reporting. The intent is to present procedures that can be uniform in all institutions and are compatible with data collection efforts in other areas.…

Hoping to assure that the college remains responsive to the community, this study focuses on some of the factors which will affect Johnson County Community College's evolution over the next 20 years. Toward that end, the demographic features of Johnson County have been analyzed and projected as well as factors pertinent to and descriptive of…

This report analyzes assumptions and conclusions presented in state reports related to increasing efficient use of college facilities through extended hours of instruction and year-round operation. Data were obtained through questionnaires mailed to every California community college district and through studies on these subjects. One chapter…

Ten units in higher education employing computer techniques which used a key measure relecting the relative degree of flexibility available to an institution for scheduling its instructional program are reported upon. Other measures which have been employed are described in the form of a short history of space utilization in higher education and…

The results of a questionnaire from two Wisconsin State Universities suggest that the indoor and outdoor space requirements of the 1960 Illinois study satisfy minimal needs for physical education activities. Suggested guidelines for indoor and outdoor physical education space needs, based on student enrollment, are given. (HH)

One way to meet the problems of space needs of new programs and a wider constituency without resorting to new buildings is to modernize available campus space. With costs of new construction steadily rising, with space on which to build dwindling and with the growing affection for old, familiar buildings on campus, modernization often serves as…

School building design in this publication is interpreted as meaning layout and arrangement of rooms rather than as architectural style. Citations are organized under (1) central authority publications, (2) local authority publications, (3) general works, (4) articles in periodicals, and (5) unpublished theses. (Author/MLF)

The Task Force on Space for Health Sciences is one of four task forces established by the Committee on Capital Financing of the Council of Ontario Universities to work toward the development of a capital formula that would define space needs and building costs for Ontario universities. Each task force has a particular assignment related to the…

In the last several years the universities in Ontario have been absorbing into their curricula the programs of teacher education and the health sciences. In 1971 the Minister of University Affairs referred in a letter to the presidents of provincially-assisted universities to a need to extend the inventory of physical resources and the capital…

The movement of people in a library is inevitably noisy and also creates a visual distraction for the reader. If the provision of quiet areas where readers can work undisturbed is an important criterion of library design, the traffic patterns generated in a library by the disposition of the various facilities - stacks, periodicals, reference…

This document is the reply of the Eugene school district's research, development, and evaluation division to portions of a citizen task force report on small schools in the district. The analysis takes issue with certain findings concerning population and enrollment trends, economics, program capacity, staffing, and the criteria for the evaluation…

Better utilization of facilities through consideration of the factors presented in the article can help meet the spatial needs for relevant and responsible vocational education programs. (Author/EC)