The Study On Roof Open Space Design

The roof is compare to the fifth elevation of the building, which is the important element thatdecides to construction outline. In the city, whether the roof space form of the building will influence to thedaintiness of "the roof symphony" in the urban space directly or not. But in the long-term city constructionprocess, multitudinous roof spaces of buildings were leaf unused, completely empty, one even like unfolds,even acted as the "back yard" that pile up the sundry articles and places that pile up advertisement, causedthe user shrink back at the sight of it, not only was easy to result in hidden trouble such as the roof leakageetc., but also caused "the hot island effect", affected the city the microclimate, destroyed the city ecosystemenvironment, space effect and building artistry. With the increasing demands on the urban environmentquality and the new understanding of the roof space, people gradually began to pay more attention to theroof space is a great city remaining space with the huge potential use.Basing on the concerns of the relationship of the abandoned assets of roof space and the quality ofurban life, with several aspects study on roof open space historical evolution, its different types and theirrespective characteristics, its design principles and strategies, roof open space and other roof facilitiescombined design, its development trend and prospect, the thesis discussed on how to design the roof openspace better to play a greater potential assets in order to better serve the public.The construction of roof open space has become a trend more and more nowadays, has importanteffects to alleviate the urban land lack, expand the urban outdoors life space, improve urban livingenvironment, enrich people's urban life quality, achieve the return of human nature and so on, and hasstrategic significances to solve sustainable development issues also.