Recently, school buildings are being used as a center of local community with high potential. It operates as a supporting facility for new urban functions, such as complexity and park. It means the functions of school buildings are changing, for not only education but also for local community, and the demand of medium for local vitalization is increasing.

 However, school buildings in local areas are not connected to the existing urban facilities because the establishment and the management of school buildings are carried out separately by the central government and its local governments. In the case of the mixed use of school buildings, only some buildings are used in parallel, and those which are planned and built not as approaching for all areas but as the separate building project. Therefore, there are limits to its use as a central living
space of local areas.

 For this reason, there is a need for the research about using school buildings in the long-term at local level. The aim of this research is to examine the present condition and possibility of school buildings as the local community facility, to derive basic direction and action plan for effective use of school buildings as a key space of local areas, by providing the building process for local community and the role of each stakeholder.