The Evaluation Of Human Comfort Of Major Plant Communities In Residential

Human have been pursuing a better external environment of their residences for a long time. Learning from the Colonnaded courtyards of ancient Greece and the Terrace garden of Italian style to the private gardens with the Chinese brushwork freehand of south China, we understand people are always seeking outstanding external environment of habitations. With the development of the cities, urban ecological problems are deeply troubling us and the increasing environmental pollution is harming human health, which seriously hampers the development of the modern cities. Afforestation becomes much more important to human beings. People start paying more attention to the ecological benefits than visual landscapes.On account of the human oriented and human care philosophy, it is necessary to probe into why and how the residential green spaces improve the environment and comfort us. A successful garden plants community has a positive effect on enhancing human feelings physically. For example, the green color of plants can significantly stabilize man's blood pressure and pulse as well as ameliorate man's physical signs; communities can reduce the noise and bring people peace; colors and fragrants of flowers can mould sentiment, reduce the psychological burden, improve the sensitivity of human sense of smell, hearing and activities of thinking.The authors tested on different types of plant communities in hot summer to witness what kinds of effect they will have on human comfort. This article is based on Landscape Ecology, Aesthetics, Human meteorology, Art design and Combined with the characteristics of green residential area. The authors selected the optimization plant configuration mode to ingratiate all types of Residential Area in order to promote the efficiency of residential afforestation. They also planned and designed Scientifically and rationally at community composition and community structure in limited green space to improve the ecological effects of unit green area and overall landscape of urban green space, which would benefit urban residents directly and provide a more scientific basis for building various green plants communities.The following things can be proved①Canopy density effects on human comfort exists in a variety of the plant community. The larger the plant canopy density, the greater the effects on human comfort will be.②Compared with the large areas of lawn,the hedge planting acts much better on lowing the temperature, increasing relative humidity and human comfort than lawn.therefore, we should try to avoid large areas of grass or tree layer without large use of hedge planting. If it can not be avoided, Grass should be replaced by hedges.③In the pure forest Palm-type trees best, flat cylindrical spherical evergreen trees and deciduous trees are the same.4-6m higheit trees are conducive to increasing human comfort.⑤There are different features and functions of various types of residential green spaces. What's more, when focusing on human comfort, we should also value the combination of the effects and the functions of landscapes.