The Research Of Lobby Design In Museum Exhibition

Appearing as a public service organization, the museum is an important component to constitute the social culture. To serve the society and social long-term harmonious development is the primary purpose of historical evidence preserving and studying. The exhibition is not only the most effective cultural product offered by museum, but also an important means of public service. Being a segment of an exhibition, the lobby is arranged as the first part to highly summarize the content. The lobby design should concentrate on the embodiment of the exhibition's main idea to bring out the theme and emphasize the atmosphere. While the consensus of the importance of lobby design has been achieved, the lack of discussion about the emergence, the development and the design element of lobby also exposes the insufficiency of the basic research in museum exhibition art design.Presently, a lot of books and papers, concerning museum exhibition design, paid more attention on the forms and principles, but only little on the significance of users– the audience to the exhibition design. Consequently, they are not able to discover the deeper-level elements in sense of essence, since the significance of users also determines whether the designer could solve the problem of exhibition design by the rule of human oriented.Based on the above, with the instruction of the museology and the artistic design theory, this thesis intends to find a possible method which employs the architectural theory of"human-behaviors-environment"as well as the study in a basic unit of exhibition - lobby, to research the entire exhibition design effectively from user's angle.Firstly, the thesis defines the basic concept in order to avoid the ambiguity in the extent of statement. Secondly it studies the generating process and the function of lobby, analyses the elements composing the lobby designing, as well as its influence on the users, and finds out some cruxes existing in lobby designing through example analysis. Finally, it discusses the abuse which exists in the current lobby design, tries hard to search some possible rules which are beneficial to producing practice. Without academic phrasemongerings, we always hold a"practice– theory– practice"method, and adopt the example analysis priority method besides the combination of theory and practice in this thesis. In consequence, the result is feasible with certain guide significance to designing practice.This thesis selects the lobby design of museum exhibition design as the object. The extent focuses on the lobby without too many extending on the other parts of exhibition design. The main consideration is that the lobby design is one of the basic units in exhibition design. We hope to draw the conclusion and instruct the practice by a thorough analysis and research in a relatively small part of overall exhibition art design system, in order to avoid reaching every detail caused by the oversized research extent, and resulting in a superficial research finally.