Study On The Architecture Design Of The Students'dining Hall Through Analysis Of Dining Square Of Tsinghua University

With the rapid development of the higher education in China, many large-scale universities and colleges began to construct correlation facilities. The students'dining hall, as an important facility of the university in China, changes greatly in contrast to those traditional ones in architecture size,modes of dining,function of dining, and so on. To make the architecture design of the students'dining hall more reasonable, this paper analyzed the design characteristics and gave the key points of the design based on the investigation on the dining hall in the different periods and the re-evaluation of a real case.In this paper, the definition of the students'dining hall was given at first and the meaning of this kind of architecture was clarified. Then through investigation and analyses, the mode of management and administration, the mode of dining, the scale of architecture, and several other factors that influenced the design of the dining hall were given. Every factor has its own influence on architecture design.The dining hall was divided into several units according to different functions, such as cookroom, mess kit recycle bin, vertical traffic, storeroom, dressing room, and so on. These function units were analyzed in detail based on the re-evaluation of the design of the biggest dining hall in Tsinghua University and the investigation on many other dining halls in different universities. The key points of architecture design were given according to the different modes of dining.By analyzing the relationships between the location of the dining hall and the traffic condition in campus, the paper pointed out that it is necessary to construct a multifunctional cafeteria in teaching-region.