Well-Being as an Effective Aspect in the Perception of Vital In-between Spaces within Art and Architecture Faculties

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The topic is well selected and site is also appropriate for the study.

Following factors need improvement to finalize the manuscript.

1. Make three schools under study anonymous in your manuscript to avoid potential complaint. 

2. Spatial relation  is more critical than individual space for evaluating the effect on occupant's well being. this study does not show any clue for the relation among in-between space under study. Discrete photos are not enough to deliver the issues. Provide plan of the building under study.

3. Define clearly which space is in-between space in this study. Studio space was mentioned as in-between space in the context of the manuscript and it is not normally considered as in-between space even if the activity inside is very similar to the student's activities  in the process of creation and  actually main part of the creative behavior(after the official class hour), which is consistently mentioned as what is expected in in-between space in art and architecture buildings. Still it is the classroom for the major of art and architecture and not acceptable as in-between space.

4. Provide the information regarding which space in each building is counted as in-between space.(researcher's assumption might be different from interviewee)

5. Any outdoor in-between space in the building such as balcony, veranda, deck is included for questionnaire? If it is included, provide distinction in your analysis.

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Reviewer 2 Report

I thank the authors for this survey study of perception of educational buildings in terms of wellbeing and productivity.

 In general, this paper has been well presented with a clear research question, proper methods, and some interesting findings.

Some aspects could be considered to improve the paper quality as follows:

1. For the key topic / words used in this paper, if the ‘wellbeing’ means the ‘mental wellbeing’? This may need clarification.

2. Introduction:

Page2, line 57: In-between space: more explanations could be added to enhance the first understanding of this space.

3. Section 2.3: it seems that the ‘wellbeing’ focuses on the ‘mental performance’? Could you please further clarify based on your final research findings?

4. The big question: as you have mentioned in the research aim, you will survey the educational spaces to test participants’ well-being and productivity. Why no questions on these topics can be found in Table 3 and section 3.3?

5. Results:

A comprehensive analysis of educational spaces was presented in this part. However, they were topics relating to environmental qualities and social performances. Where are the questions relating to wellbeing and productivity?

6. Section 3.4: this part should be separated as ‘Results’.

7. Section 4: some of the results should be moved to the section of results. The discussion should focus on the final findings.  

 

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Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

My comments are sincerely reflected and found out improvement is made enough for publication.