A Comparative Study on Centrality in Museum Layouts : In the Case of the Royal Museum of Scotland and Burrell Gallery

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This study intends to compare the spatial and behavioral patterns of the center space of different museum layouts and interpret them with reference to social contexts. For the study, two Scottish museums were chosen and the examined by using Space Syntax analysis as an analytic framework. Analysis of the two different centralities leads to some fundamental aspects of morphological and cultural implications behind museum layouts. In morphological terms, two types of centrality were unfolded; figured centrality for the Royal Museum of Scotland and spatial centrality for the Burrell Gallery. From the observed result of space use, the two centralities work in the same way; spatially structured centrality was relatively well-used and instrumentalized in people movement while figured centrality did not that was to be symbolized. It led heterogeneity of centrality in cultural implications. Symbolic centrality was represented and crystallized spatial form for social relations and solidarity or even for personal authority, while instrumental centrality was utilized for purely movement and exhibits. Discordance between symbolic and instrumental aspects of centrality seems to be the one of the evidences that presented changing notion since modern architecture of what museum layout is like to be.
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2002-03-20