Research On Metro Public Art’s Guiding Role

With the rapid development of urbanization, the demand for transportation is growing. Metro, as the main rail transportation vehicle in the city, plays an important role in the construction of urban infrastructure. With the rapid development of metro, the application of public art in the metro underground space is gradually known to the public. However, due to the weak management consciousness of metro public art design in recent years, the correlation between underground space and city space is poor and featureless, making passengers easily lose their way.Thereupon, my thesis chooses public art as the media to coordinate the relationship between the passengers perception and the metro underground environment, focusing on how the public art is applied to serve the guiding role in metro underground. Moreover, as an important part of public space environment, public art can improve and highlight the regional culture features. This thesis consists of three parts. First of all, by processing data and analyzing cases and practices it studies the theoretical background of metro public art’s guiding role. Secondly, by analyzing the guiding role of underground space, manifesting metro public art, and presenting current situation of metro public art at home and abroad, it summarizes the element and design concept of underground space which influences the guiding role of public art. Finally, combining the regional features of Xiamen University, the paper proposes an oriented design for public art. Moreover, it provides theoretical and practial reference to the consruction of metro public art in XM, even in our country.