The Primary Study On The Use Of Space Modulus Method In Urban Design

Modulus, as its standardization, quantification and derivability, has been used inarchitecture design for a long time. It can play an active role that controlling scale,harmonizing proportion and achieving standardization of construction. In urban design,the space modulus method has been used to control the scale of land, reinforce the spaceorder in an early age.China is currently under the rapid urbanization, on account of development, thereare great changes in urban space, which seems to be expansion of the urban land on onehand and reconstruction for the old inner city on the other hand. While promoting thecity’s development, these constructions also brought quite a lot of problems such aswasting of land, losing control of the scale, reducing the environmental quality and soon. Considering such situation, it has become a quite significative task to control theland division and use the space efficiently under the space modulus method.Under the main research object "urban space modulus", this paper tried to describethe modulus constitution system of the architecture space, block space and urban spacefirstly. Secondly it focused on the research of typical urban space modulus in ancientand modern cities. Thirdly, on base of all the modulus been analyzed, the papercompared them and gathered up several factors affecting the urban space modulus，together with a preliminary conclusion of the space modulus method. Finally,combining with the use of space modulus method in the project of the "CBD design ofthe New Riverfront District in Zhang Ye City", the paper got a feedback to the researchwith the practical use.The paper aimed to provide fundamental information about interrelated researches of urban space modulus based on the analyzing of analyze typical cases. Also, theprimary study on the use of space modulus method is hoped to provide some referencesfor interrelated researches of urban design in the future.