Systematic space planning for record store with additional pleasant cafe area / Farahumi Mohd Fadzil

Record stores remain a significant third position for contemporary urban communities, despite digitization. This retail store offers locals a source of music, information, enjoyment, distraction, and distinction as places of cultural consumption. Over time, however, where these places exist in the modern city has changed. To keep the record stores known, the impression of individuals with record stores is so important. The record store's space planning makes it impossible for vinyl customers to locate the correct vinyl. There are limited space to fulfill the spaces requirement in a record store. Furthermore, most of the record stores do not have proper space to store their products accordingly to types. This descriptive is to investigate the space planning of the selected record store, the impression of people on the record store nowadays and also to study the spaces needed in a record store according to the function and type of spaces. The study is to provide a systematic space planning for a record store to attract more customers. In order to gain a better insight on the research of the space planning in the record store and cafe, semi- structured interviews were conducted with 6 people. A questionnaire also is being conducted, and an on-site observation in conduct at the existing site of selected case study. Results indicated that most of the respondent agreed that the record store need to improve the record store itself for the first impression to be better. The study also found that the record store must provide a better space planning and a better display area in the future.