Design Of Office Building's Exterior Environment

Office building is a kind of architecture with a long history. It is also widely-used in modern society. Primitive office buildings came out together with the primitive settlements. From discussion building of primitive society to the palace, court, assembly hall, business association of slave society and feudal society,office buildings can be seen in each period. Modern office building is the most popular architecture type in 20th century. It is also the symbol of post-industry in modern times. They dominate our cities. More than half of staff work in office buildings in the westBesides, as the conflict between people and the nature grows more and more serious, landscape architecture as a kind of subject has been widely accepted by the public. Therefore the paper means to study the exterior environment of office buildings.There are 4 chapters in this thesis. Chapter 1 explains related conceptions such as office building and exterior environment. It also presents us the classification and development history of office building and its exterior environment. Chapter 2 analyzes users'features, psychological and behavioral, of office building exterior environment and the functions that office building exterior environment should supply. Chapter 3 introduces the design elements of office building exterior environment, including material substances and non-material substances. Chapter 4 shows us the form design of office building exterior environment, invloving plat form and space form, and the desgin principle of office building exterior environment.