A Research Into The Space Design Of Administrative Office Building In Small And Medium-sized Cities

Administrative office building almost has a similar history as long as the nationaland urban development, it is an important manifestation of different political systemsand social civilizations. In modern China, with the accelerated process of urbanization,the impact of globalization and informatization, transformation of administrativeconcept and adjustment of the administrative institutions, local governmentsgradually change from the political and authority institutions to the public serviceinstitutions,which all sets new requests to the ideas of space design and spatialorganization mode of modern executive office building.The first part of the paper identifies the concept of modern executive officebuilding and defines the range of the study.Then the paper discusses the different development courses of Chinese andWestern executive office buildings and summarizes the different and usefulinspirations in the design of space form.After that the paper discusses some concepts related to the design of architecturalspace and makes brief analysis of the space form,points out the current situationproblems of executive office buildings in china: tremendous spatical scale, similararchitectural forms, confined space images, ossification of internal space organizationmode,lack of regional culture. On base of that,the paper makes thorough analysis ofthe new backgrounds of the times,and summarizes new characteristics of its spatialdesign: the public and openness, flexibility and adaptability, recognizability andcomposite of building space. As a guiding,it describes the methods of external andinternal space design in modern executive office building in detail.In the design of external space,the paper discusses the relationship betweenbuilding space and urban space,plaza,regional environment and different parts of thebuilding groups;in the design of internal space,it talks about the pattern of spacedesign,design of different functional spaces,organization of internal space and thecontrol of spatical scale.