Study On The Design Of Human-oriented Urban Plaza

The thesis mainly probes into the human-oriented urban plaza design, so as to create living space of the people, for the people and by the people. The chapters this thesis describes are as followed.Introduction points out the paper's significance on the basis of stating the urban plaza status and typical problems in china today.Chapter 1 firstly relates the concept and meaning of "human-oriented", then discusses the definition and kinds of the urban plaza by analyzing the correlation documents, and finally, the study objects, study area, and point of view are further defined.Chapter 2 analyzes the main factors and their own characters of the urban plaza design which in details includes human, natural and man-made elements, And, by these, puts forward the co-action relationships between human and nature.Chapter 3, according to the human's require levels, studies on the theoretical system of the human-oriented plaza design. In this chapter human require and space elements are thoroughly studied. The prior covers from material needs to mental ones, while the later covers from the whole form and scale to combination of the sub-spaces, small space formation such as setting-up, enclosure, sides and combination, and still to human scale and size.Chapter 4 and 5 separately analyzes the typical cases in domestic and abroad plazas built in different times and design styles in order to acknowledge the role of human-oriented plaza in history.Last summarizes the whole content and proposes the urban plaza trends in the future.