Impact Of Informal Activities In Transitional Spaces On Informal Learning Of Students In Architectural Education

Abstract

A campus is a place where students acquired knowledge from colleges in the form of lectures. Now in the recent years, the study space has changed from conventional form to contemporary form. The concept of learning in future will change from closed space learning to open space learning (Transitional spaces). Transitional spaces are spaces located in between outdoor and indoor envoirment acting as both buffer speel and physical links. There spaces are mostly used for conducting various internal activities in colleges. In architecture education, formal education should be supported with informal education in order to equip students with general architectural knowledge and improve their architectural design power. Informal learning activities will help to develop informal learning of the students. A study was conducted in pune by selecting two architecture colleges and 90 students from these two colleges. The selection of colleges and respondent students were done purposively. The study was undertaken to examine the effect of informal activities conducted in transitional space on informal learning of architecture students.

The results of the study indicated that amongest different transitional spaces, Courtyard Amphitheatre, Common area, student's plaza and corridors were ranked high on the basis of mean score. While model making, workshop and students presentation were most important learning activities. Overall increase in learning was observed in transitional spaces as against class room situation. The informal learning is relatively more in transitional spaces and as such it establishes the importance of transitional spaces in Architectural education.