A Study on the Characteristics of Automobile Shop and Garage--Top Five Automobile Manufacturer in Taichung City

• Main Authors: Tsweng Tseng Lai, 賴春成
• Other Authors: Jyue Huey Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2003
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/05531129443274778176

碩士 === 東海大學 === 建築學系 === 91 === ABSTRACT The study attempts to explore the characteristics of the retail site location and architectural spaces of top-five automobile dealer in Taichung city. The results are expected to be applied by urban planner, architectural designer as well as auto retailer to realize the relationship between the development of the car retail system and urban spatial structural system, and principal rules while evaluating their sites or designing their buildings. In site location part，we compare the relationship between auto store site distribution and industrial, geographic as well as census track data including established time, administrative division, business type, industry development, population amount and regional population growth. We fine the economic situation and population growth played the major role of car retail structural development, and make the industry a market-oriented one. At the same time, we discuss the relationship between store site and physical urban environment including traffic and land use situation, and find the communicative highways are attracting auto store establishment, which make the store distribution linear aggregated, but some store with repair facility would like the industrial district which sometimes make the store distribution regional aggregated. Furthermore, the analysis shows the different retailing system make car dealer looking at their branch store from different standpoint on deployment, and cause different business types in one similar land condition hence different building types. In architectural space part, we discuss their spatial speciality in three different aspect including spatial unit, spatial configuration and architectural style. First off, we explore existing distinctive spatial units in car store facility including exhibit space from car showroom and repair space from repair workshop. In a inductive way, we propose mutual design principles and depict some exceptional designing route both in qualitative and quantitative aspect. Secondly, we investigate the connectivity between spaces, classify our samples into several different types and elaborate each type’s spatial factors and special quality. Thirdly, we analyze architectural style in two different aspect including mass form and elevation style and subdivide car store elevation into three parts—entrance, major elevation and sign facility. There are different qualitative and quantitative need between showroom and repair space. On one hand, the showroom space has been taken customer’s spatial experience and marketing effect seriously which emphasizing communicative social space, on the other hand, the repair space has been paid much attention to its productivity and efficiency which emphasizing standardized mechanical space. However, the major differences between different types of car store stem from land condition of their site. The area limitation will affect the amount of spatial configuration layer thus influence architectural elevation style, while geometric condition of the site will affect spatial arrangement thus influence architectural mass form. All in all, automobile store has been seen as a special architectural type deriving from auto commerce and repair activities which affected by several location factors and distributed extensively on peripheral communicative highway around downtown area. Due to its occupation of such two different functionality as exhibit and repair, plus several different site conditions, which appears 3 different spatial configuration types respectively on car showroom stores and car repair workshops. As for showroom/repair stores, there are 9 different spatial configuration types when showroom spaces and repair spaces have been arranged horizontally, and 6 different spatial configuration types when showroom spaces and repair spaces have been arranged vertically.