A Preliminary Study Of High-density Community Public Space

With the significant population growth, over land development, the living forms evolved from the natural huts of traditional open-ended form to the high-density apartment buildings. Although the urban living environment and material conditions have significantly improved, the urban mechanism of human environment has been damaged greatly. The communication and exchanges among residents gradually faded, and their mutual understanding become less and less. The communication not only provoked a lot of social problems, but also aroused a strong reaction. How to promote communication and exchanges between the people? This paper take the current public space of community as the research object in order to study the promotion of communication and exchanges among people living within the residential areas, and try to make analysis and discussion of the public space for community.Theoretical research of this paper is mainly on the design principles of stimulating communication and exchanges in the public space of communities, combined with psychology, landscape planning and other related disciplines. Firstly, discuss the settlement patterns and the evolution of public space,from the development perspective, rise the problem of high-density community public space according to our current national conditions, and classify the public space by spatial forms and different levels, then put forward design principles in three dimensions, such as "holistic," "humanity",and "multiple", all of these are related to psychological aspects, and material completion principles related to the landscape, and subjective factors principles related to the previous design.In the aspect of practical research, this paper put its focus on the division of community public space, divides it into five sub-space:the border space, plaza space, garden space, road space, the remaining space. Combination the previous principles of stimulating communication and exchanges in the public space of communities,the paper makes a careful analysis to the "nodes" under various space, and tries to improve it in order to give practical suggestion to the real-life practical examples. Finally, the paper makes a specific explaination to the written theory and does a comprehensive analysis to how public space is conducive to interpersonal exchanges.