| Along with the process of urbanization, the residential housing development in China is experiencing changes from focusing on building efficiency to living comfort, from aiming for unit quantity to space quality. Because of its high population density and the shortage of land, developing mainly high-rise communities, which has high plot ratio, building coverage, and building density that can host large number of people and contain a mix of program will be the practical choice for the Pearl River Delta(PRD) area. Researches on residential community recreational behavior and recreational space has become an important view on studying the residential community design. The bottom overhead spaces are as great function value being one of the significant elements of residential communities in PRD. Facing the reality problems of faultiness in their space design and functions, the bottom overhead spaces of residential communities, as well as the recreational functions and spaces situating in these bottom overhead spaces worth studying. Besides researching on the spatial form and scale of traditional residential community bottom overhead spaces, this thesis also develops the evaluation model of the residential communities’ bottom overhead space recreational functional index. The thesis applies literature review, PSPL as a method of research, and the qualitative and quantitative of fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method as a study system. Finally, the thesis aims to become a useful reference for the future statistic of the current condition and designs of residential community bottom overhead spaces.The thesis contains five parts: 1. Chapter one expounds the background of the study, its major problems, and the gold and main meaning. Moreover, chapter one explains the topic, related concepts, and has a brief domestic and overseas literature review of the subject. 2. The thesis bases on both literature reviews and field investigation on the bottom overhead space of compact residential communities in PRD, summarizes the characteristics of these overhead spaces. 3. Chapter three discuss the relationship between the environment of the bottom overhead spaces and residents’ recreational behavior bases on filed researches and thus, develop the basis of building up the evaluation model of the residential communities’ bottom overhead space recreational functional index. 4. Chapter four develop the evaluation framework of residential communities’ bottom overhead space recreational functional index by applying the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method. And the chapter determines the weighting of each influencing elements by using AHP method, then building up the evaluation model of the qualitative and quantitative residential communities’ bottom overhead space recreational functional index. 5. Chapter five takes two examples: the Era Rose Garden and the Mountain Sunrise View Community, explains the evaluation process and procedures. By analyzing the bottom overhead space recreational functional indexes from the two communities, the chapter concludes the deficiency of the overhead spaces as well as explains the meanings of some key concepts. |