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In this paper we examine the spatial property of common space that plays a vital role in educational facilities based on departmental system. As departmental system has been introduced, a great part of school has been changed in order to suffice the requirements. Especially, classrooms have been reorganised in terms of classification and categorisation, and as a result they are no longer used for student. In order to solve this problem, common space is added in between subjects, and now serve as homebase for student. Despite this space having been intensively studied, it has been lack of scrutinising it in terms of architectural intention and social relation between teacher (or inhabitant) and student (or visitor). Throughout in-depth understanding of designer’s intentions and spatial properties using visibility graph analysis model which is one of analytical tools in space syntax theory, it is found out that common space supports spatially a wide range of activities such as interacting, studying and resting, and also works as a transitional space among subjects. In addition, there is a quite distinct organisational culture between teacher and student, that is classrooms are deeper from homebase than teacher’s office.