The Study On Humanized Design Of Xi’an Shopping Malls Underground Commercial Space

Along with the economic development, the living standard of the urban populationis on the rise, and the leisure life of urban residents has been greatly improved as well.The proportion of time which people would spend in their leisure life, especially on theshopping-oriented recreational activities is growing by degrees. However, since theexistence of multiple business models, coupled with the rapid development of Internetcommerce, not only to meet the residents’ shopping need with the single act buying,the experiential humane shopping mall commercial spaces focusing on theenvironment, the brand and the service have been deeply rooted in the heart of peoplegradually.At the same time, with the increasing of urban agglomeration degree, the high costof city business district, the difficulty in increasing the floor area ratio and theprotection of urban landscape and city context, developing underground space hasbecome an unstoppable trend. On one hand, the underground ground---air trinityspatial pattern broadens the possibilities of traditional two-dimensional space, on theother hand, underground spaces breakthrough single buildings’enclosed feeling, whichmakes the three-dimensional function of the city more prominent by linking with urbantransport, squares and other functions.Combined with the two points above, the significance of exploring undergroundshopping malls commercial space is self-evident. However, how to let these spaces become more comforting and comfortable, how to overcome their own disadvantagesand give full play to their strengths, how to make the space more humane are worthy ofinvestigation.Based on the knowledge of large shopping centers and the understanding ofdomestic&international underground commercial space frontier, from the perspectiveof architectural combining with psychology and sociology, the author uses visiting,research, questionnaires and discussion as the main means to investigate the Xi’anunderground shopping mall commercial spaces. Analyzing the advantages anddisadvantages of the result from the survey, based on the advanced experience andregional characteristics, we may draw a conclusion on the features of humane spacesaimed at various positioning, business strategies, and audience. The author will notgive a fixed answer or structure to what is a humane underground shopping space. Aunique space characteristic of one shopping mall must reflect a certain ideology.The author hopes to make continuation and supplement to the previous studies bystating and listing analysis on the special topic. Moreover, it is hoped that the researchcould play a guiding role and inspiring reference in future humane commercial spacedesign.