The Preliminary Exploration Of Vest-pocket Park's Design

During the acceleration of urbanization, the bigger the density of people and building in city is, the less the place out of doors for people's activity is, which could not satisfy the need of urbanization. So, the vest-pocket park as a place for people's activity out of doors appeared. The time of vest-pocket park's development from it's appearance is just within half century, but it shows an active influence on the environment, landscape of city and the life of people. As a city's microenvironment, vest-pocket park is an important part of city's open space and the most consist of city's open green space system. For it's opening, reachable, small and multiplicity and it is close to people's life and can provide the outdoor communication freely for the residents, vest-pocket park takes the most important part in city's opening space systems than other open spaces.The vest-pocket park, has a low investment,needs a little areas, takes effect quickly, could appear in high density areas in city largely and reconcile the environment around. It can green, beauty and increase the ecology benefit, take effect in improving the residents'life and satisfy the need of people living in central of city for activity out of doors. The vest-pocket park is convenient for the residents with the open areas and green parts of city together. Considering from the view of macroscopic point, the vest-pocket park is just the supporting role of the landscape, but from the point of citizen, it is the leading actor. It is fit for people's affinity.With the improvement of people's need in quality of life, whatever in western country or in China, people attach the microenvironment important, it is a chance for the vest-pocket park's development. It is practicality for our landscape designers to study the vest-pocket park's characteristic, the relation between the landscape and people, the development trend, plan and design countermeasure. First, the article introduces the definition, the function, the characteristic, the kind, the origin and the development of the vest-pocket park through expounding the conception about the vest-pocket park. Second, the use of vest-pocket park in modern city space is described, the article explains the need of residents in city for the small open space-vest-pocket park also and discusses the effect of it on environment of city. Third, from analyzing the law, the paper finds the normal and special rules in designing the vest-pocket park, the fascination of vest-pocket park is showed in the article, and then the paper explains the design method, principle, process and content emphatically, and uses the example of vest pocket parks in different high density areas in city to prove the theories in paper. Finally, the results are gotten, the vest-pocket park is a modern, applicable open space in city, which could help in solving the problem of people's need of parks. As a main complement of parks, the vest-pocket park is significative for mitigating and recovering the press of people, and is important to the status in quo of city's construction.