Strategies For The Spirit Of Place Making For The Public Space Of Urban Commercial Complex

In recent years the urban commercial complex is the most popular comprehensive commercial estate projects in our country, it usually cover a lot of functions such as hotels, department stores, residential, office buildings and entertainment&leisure facilities, it is also another commercial form following the traditional department store-SHOPPINGMALL. It is the product of the era, which develops with the development of society, improvement of people’s living standards and the change of consumption concepts, it is a synthesis which is composed of three or more different formats, it known as "cities within cities", which can satisfy all of the requirements of the city. The public space is closely linked with the everyday life of ordinary people. It is the highest frequently used space which has the biggest public and open, at the same time. As an important supplement of the modern urban public space, it also assumes part of the functions of the urban space.A great number of large-scale complex buildings have been built in the large and medium-sized cities recently, many of the cities seem it as a symbol of political achievements and city landmarks, with the result of pursuing big. fast and luxury blindly, it causes the phenomenon of "thousands cities with same face" under the influent of modernism and globalization, ignoring the spiritual attribute, thus damage the place attaches with the feelings of people who can hardly identity with the place. This article attempts to start from the spirit of place theory, combined with domestic and foreign outstanding examples to analyze how the theory applies in the city public space of commercial complex, in order to create public space which is spiritual and can suffice for the modern life-style.This research is divided into seven parts:The first chapter mainly explains the development background, the purpose&meaning, the category&the method, the domestic and foreign relevant theoretical research and practical experience as well as the framework of the research;Chapter2mainly clears the related concepts, classification and characteristics of urban commercial complex and public space, as well as the development process of the domestic and foreign public space of urban commercial complex, in order to establish the theoretical foundation for the research of the essay;Chapter3analysis the spirit of place theory, clears its relevant concepts, the development background, research methods and the application value in the public space of urban commercial complex, draw a conclusion that the spirit of place theory is the foundation to make characteristic, it allows people to grasp the essence characteristic of the public space design;Chapter4analyzes the influence of the environmental elements, place form factors, space enclosing elements and regional characteristic for people’s sense of place, explains how to make public space to become a successful place through the spirit of place making;Chapter5puts forward the principle of place spirit construction for the public space of urban commercial complex, and discusses the place spirit build strategy respectively combines with the characteristics of different types of space;Chapter6makes the empirical analysis for the public space of Nanchang Honggutan Wanda Plaza urban commercial complex, puts forward the success and deficiency of its spirit of place making:Chapter7summarizes the main research conclusions of the full text, clarifies the research contributions and puts forward the prospects of the public space of urban commercial complex development.