The Available And Suitable Design Research Of Community Edge Space

Community edge space refers to the outer boundary space of the community, it is abridge between community and city, played the role of community building envelope and alsoprovides a variety of services to the community life and urban population. It is of greatsignificance for sustainable development and image of the urban. However, in the socialcontext of rapid urbanization, on the one hand，developers’ utilitarian thoughts leads to poorenvironment of the community edge space, and lack of energy. On the other hand, communityedge space is often overlooked by designers and urban planners, It cannot attract behavior andactivities, and become negative space. From the perspective of availability and suitability, thisthesis discuss how to enhance the vitality of community and convert negative space intopositive spaceFirstly, from residents’ standpoint, points out the essence of the community is to meetmaterial and mental requirement of the residents, and availability will be divided into physicalavailability and mental availability. The former determines the behavioral suitability, and thelatter determines the psychological suitability. Secondly, find out the reason that communityedge space is unavailable and unsuitable from the perspective of human needs. Then, specificimplementation strategies were proposed from the physical and mental availability; Finally,community edge space design principles and method were proposed from the perspective ofavailability and suitability.Availability and suitability of Community edge space is significant for all sectors ofsociety. From the perspective of the residents, it not only be able to meet the basic needs ofthe residents, but also attract residents behavior and activities to enhance the vitality of theentire community. From real estate developers’ perspective, it can enhance the commercialvalue. From the perspective of local government, it not only be able to improve the city’simage, maintenance and management, but also to create a harmonious community culture.