The Influence of Linear Architecture Space Structure on Building Evacuation Time

Abstract

Building evacuation has always been an important research question for government emergent agencies, architecture designer and building energy-saving researchers. However, most research works focus on the emergency decision theory, psychological reactions of individuals and groups, and evacuation simulation operations. Very few research works have been done to investigate the effect of architecture space structure on building evacuation time. This paper discusses the characteristic of linear architecture space structure in buildings, and analyze the influence of linear architecture space organization structure on the evacuation time in campus teaching buildings. The experiment results show that the combination of separated rooms in linear architecture space structure has a better evacuation efficiency than the combination of only large rooms.