On The Techniques Of Designing Scenes For Urban Public Spaces

This paper deals with the scenes of urban public spaces in cities. The urban space scenes serve as the activity fields for public communication. They are not only bridging the buildings far and near, but also linking these buildings to public social activities. They share the characteristics of complexity and contradiction. Starting respectively from such different aspects as the concept connotation,characteristics,components and generating of space scenes, the author makes a systematic discussion about the structure system and design theory of public inter-building space scenes. The discussion is combined with related discipline theories and cross-study methods. Concepts concerning film and drama scenes are also introduced. And a wide range of research means are adopted, including literature review, system analysis, case study, field research and questionnaire survey.Public spaces are left mainly for civil daily life, public activities and social events. Feelings related to public activity can be divided into two kinds:the material and the spiritual. Both are derived from the experiences of public life and participation of social events. Spatial scenes always center around the public social life and emotional experiences. The author sums up the basic features of urban public spatial scenes and the corresponding design methods in an effort to abstract the natural urban space scene generating techniques.The discussion proceeds on the basis of such theories as relevant to urban planning, architectural forms, playwriting, emotional experiences, architectural context, and regional cultures. Firstly, the author gives a clear definition of the study object and the content of this thesis, subjects to multi-angle review,unscrambling and reference a series of related spatial theories and concepts from home and abroad, and summarizes the features,structures and types of the scene design for public inter-building spaces. Secondly, with a large number of cases, the author makes an analysis of the space scene domain which consists of three layers, namely, three essential elements:the certain, the half-certain and the uncertain. He explores deeper into the material substances and space experiences, borrows some ideas from playwriting theories and theories on emotional experience on the way, and advances to establish a set of generating strategies and designing principles for public inter-building spatial scenes. These principles are the so-called "integrated system principle", "continuity principle", "thematic principle", "emotional experience principle" and "quality and quantity improving principle". Finally, the author brings the discussion to a conclusion. While reflecting on the whole paper, he stresses the rational borrowing, inheritance and innovation of others' achievements. As a windup, he attempts further to forecast the development trend of urban public space scenes.