Analysis Of The Humanistic And Artistic Application Of Urban Public Facility

A distinctive cultural environment can add to a city’s appeal and comprehensive competitiveness. As an integral component of urban environment and city dwellers’ life, public facilities provide essential service function. Their creative design is also an important part of urban culture. Harmonious design can be perfectly in tune with nature, social environment, history, culture, and folk heritage while provides all-round services and projects the unique characteristic of a city.Rapid urbanization and expanding city outskirts, however, lead to many problems, such as low quality public facilities, cheap replication of building designs, high energy consuming construction materials, clashing colors, and unergonomic designs, resulting in great distance and gap in the interaction between people and the public facilities. To incorporate the humanistic and artistic public facility design into urban image planning is an inevitable trend in enhancing a city’s competitiveness and promoting its sustainable development. This paper looks into the development, component of public facilities, and probes into their functional mechanism in public space, the interaction between cultural, spacial, environmental factors. Through the analysis of the current situation and existing problems of China’s public facilities, the author discusses the feasibility of humanistic and artistic design in public facilities. Take Xiamen Sea Bay Park and the renovation of the stairs of Yanwu Primary School as examples, the author lists out the existing problems and their possible solutions. At this phase of urban development, city planning and re-integration of urban culture are the key. The new round of integration of public facilities will be the new driving force in China’s building of urban culture and economic growth.