City Leisure Square Behavior Vigor

From the 1960s, along with the approaching leisure period, the development of Urban Plaza more and more reflects a leisure character. It mainly shows the demand to leisure and free life. However, the way of leisure life has not been considered in designs of domestic city leisure plaza now. A few years ago, it appeared a "Plaza tide", and those plaza make people disappointed. It lacks of behavior energy, making the "leisure" plaza not leisure. Thus, research proposes a concept of behavior vitality. In terms of environment behavior and psychology, it studies leisure behavior which appeals in leisure plaza and try to figure out the related design method. The method could provide designer with theory evidence, and it is meaningful to raise the behavior vitality at plaza, optimize the quality of plaza space and evaluate the behavior vitality at plaza.This paper studied the structure and evaluation method of leisure behavior and plaza behavior vitality as well as the design method of urban leisure plaza vitality. The main works are shows as followed:1) Define the character and category of urban leisure plaza. Study on the plaza in terms of types of leisure behavior, content, features of pattern, different age's behavior and time zone.2) Propose the concept of behavior vitality and divide it into interactive vitality and interpersonal interaction vitality based on the research and analysis of leisure behavior.3) Based on the different factors that influence the behavior vitality and vitality connection, the paper raised some design principle to build urban leisure plaza behavior vitality. From different prospects of mode language of plaza design, it propose specific method of design of behavior vitality plaza construction.4) Based on a few real cases study, it specifically explains application of the design methodology regarding construction of urban leisure plaza vitality and the usage of behavior vitality evaluation methodology.