Interpreting the Spatial Organization of AdaptiveReuse Museums Considering Crowds Issue in Circulation Routes

The integrated journey inside the exhibition halls in museums can be achieved if the visitor realizes the full message of the exhibits. This is happening not only by impacting what the visitor perceives visually but also by focusing on the spatial organization of the building. The problem that designers incur is finding solutions for the crowd and gathering issues on circulation routes. The spatial organization for museum has direct effects on the observation process of the visitor inside or between the exhibition halls. It offers the museum its circulation routes, thus the difficulty to reach and identify displayed items and the waiting time which are happened due to the problem considered as the negative impacts on the visitors' journey. This research is aiming to figure out a spatial organization that discount the crowd’s problem, finds out how the circulation route between and inside the halls deal with the gathering issues. This study is trying to answer how people may orient themselves successfully and get all the information in the halls of the exhibition by studying the circulation routes in relation to the general layout plan of the museums. Focusing on how the design can save the waiting time of the visitors during the experience inside the Museums. Thesis questions are: How the spatial organization of the museums affects the circulation routes? What sort of layout can avoid the crowd issues on the circulation routes? The limitation of this study is on the museums in European cities that formed by the adaptive reuse way of the historical buildings. This study focuses on the most top-ranked visited museums in the world of the year 2018 sorted by the theme index museum AECOM and TEA. The methodology is both quantitative and qualitative method & data analysis based on the literature review by analyzing six case studies, on the focus of the relation between the general layout type and the circulation routes. The findings in this research aimed to understand how international museums utilize space to be a unique experience for its visitors. At the conclusion, some rules to be used while designing museums and others to be avoided. Keywords: Spatial Organization, Circulation Routes, Crowds, Museum