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Since the 7th reform of education policy has been implemented into many schools, new planning and design methods have been also introduced into elementary schools. One of most importantly as well as urgently introduced design factors in them is probably classroom's size to meet the requirements of fast changing trends not only in our social policy but also in the number
of students and their body shape, such as height, weight, etc. It is however very difficult to find suitable design criteria which can be employed into the design of elementary school's classroom, for example, the volume and size of classroom for the new ages.
This study investigates three elementary schools in Gwang-ju City to identify the differences in the volume and size of their classrooms with the introduction of space density model of classroom showing the ratio of classroom's volume and that of teaching aids. Five key factors are introduced to find students' attitudes in their recognition of classroom, such as a sense on
the width, depth, height, inside wall, and the colour. Students in the three elementary schools were questioned by the five key factors and their questionnaires were analysed by student's sex.
Research results show that the above mentioned ratio in the three elementary schools shows little difference, but their recognition on the classrooms reveals a little bit interesting results. In general, they regard their classroom as sort of wide and having a suitable depth with high ceiling height. Regarding their recognition on the wall and colour, they answer that the classroom's walls are some tidy and their colour is a little bit warm.