The Research Of Communicating Properties And Communication Space In Youth Hostels

With the development of tourism economy and diversification of traveling way, youthhostel has been seen as a standard organization of the international hotel chain, which isdifferent from the general hotels. A large number of young visitors have been attracted byits unique communicating properties. The sweet and easy interactive atmosphere in youthhostel is very difficult to find in general hotel.The author has an accidental chance forstaying in the staff dormitory of youth hostel and feels their enthusiasm and effort to thework. Moreover, the communication space problems in use process of some youth hostelshave been learned, and remotivating its vitality is desired. People’s behaviors are influencedby the quality of the spatial design. How does the youth hostel let the familiar people morecloser, the cold fish more enthusiasm, the strangers more interested in communication? Thethesis is just based on the above research background and the origin of selecting the topic.The communication space of youth hostel is taken as the research object. Through a monthof the volunteers type of the fixed-point investigation and the visit type of the multi-pointresearch, a large amount of examples and materials are collected and sorted. And the theoryof the communication space has been analyzed and researched with target. Furthermore,some population characteristics and the design technique of the communication space ofyouth hostel based on the communicating properties have been summarized and concluded,which provides the referential material for the design of the communication space.There are five parts consisted in this thesis. The first chapter is the establishment of theresearch principal part, which introduces the research background and significance, researchcontent and method, and the research object etc.The development of youth hostel is first overviewed in the second chapter. Then theclassification and characteristics of all kinds of the youth hostel are summarized.Communicating properties are proposed and the corresponding activities of the youthhostel are discussed in the third chapter. Firstly, through the comparison and analysis theproperties between the youth hostel and general hotels. Communicating properties whichare related to the space design and atmosphere constructing of youth hostel are introduced.Next, on the basis of the relevant theories in the project, the psychological characteristics of the main body crowd and the activity features of youth hostel have been specifically made aclassification analysis.The communication space of youth hostel and the research process of its design areincluded in the fourth chapter, which is the core chapter in the thesis to solve the problemand the comprehensive use. First, based on the theoretical research, the common propertiesof the positive and energetic communication space in daily life are summarized.Next,Thelayout of the spatial structure, the space streamline, the feature set, the space element, thespace dimension, the section organization and so on have been deeply discussed,respectively. Furthermore, the design strategies of the communication space of youth hostelhave been proposed. The youth hostel which is investigated by the author in volunteer formis taken as a specific example. The design strategies mentioned above is applied, and thedesign research of its communication space is modified.The fifth chapter is the study and prediction of the development trend of youth hostel.Finally for the conclusion of the thesis, the research results are summarized, and thefuture is looked forward to.