The Study On Regional Underground Commercial Space Design

With the acceleration of urbanization, the land and space resources of downtown areas become increasingly tense which generates a series of problems, such as traffic jam, the crowded living space, the deteriorating environment and etc. As a new way of land resources utilization, underground space construction is developed rapidly. It has been proved that the development of underground space is very fruitful to alleviate the contradiction of growing population and city space. Underground commercial space, as one of the useful way to use underground space, is an inevitable result of economic development. At present, the development of underground commercial space presents multiplex tendency. The consumers’demands for underground commercial space design have increased relatively. Not only the most basic needs, but the new requirements of comfort and culture on the environment have been also included.Currently domestic underground commercial space hasn’t been formed its space image with strong identifiability. Most of them use the successful space image design abroad for reference. Some managers of underground commercial space only focus on its business function and make a simple arrangement of the shops which only meets the basic demand of commercial space. They fail to make reasonable planning and design of the integrated environment and other details such as lighting. This results in the disunity between aesthetics and function. There is no much difference to tell underground shops from land shops. It doesn’t meet consumers" aesthetic demand, nor does it have its local characteristics to show the unique features of the city. How to design an underground space to meet both functional and aesthetic demands is a major problem that we are facing.With the basic study of theoretical basis of experts both from domestic and abroad, the essay gets its research object and method through field research and lots of data work to discuss the underground space with designs which are rich in local cultural characteristics and make analysis of the space features and basic forms of current underground space. Through comprehensive comparison, the essay will find the way of development trend of the underground space design in Guangzhou, discuss the possibility of regional cultural being used in underground commercial space design and prove its practical value and operation approach.