Research Of Lingnan Pedestrian Shopping Street Design With The Watery Settlement Forms

The Pedestrian Shopping Streets play a vital role in public space of city. It is not only a place for shopping, entertainment, recreation and communication, but also conveying the traditional culture and historical memory.Influenced by experiential commercial culture, customers are persuingmore individual and interactive shopping experience. That demands pedestrian shopping street having a particular and personal theme. Rooting on digging the regional characteristics and culture connotations sufficiently, an abundant special experiences and interactive environments could be constructed.The traditional watery settlement is the most visible feature of pedestrian shopping streets in Lingnan area. The prosperous development of Lingnan commerce links closely with the dense water net system, which is widely distributed in this area. Due to the special Geography, Climateand culture tradition, the Lingnan commerce and architecture distinguish itself with other districts. After combining the Lingnan watery settlement style with pedestrian shopping streets, convey the water-loving, climate-adapting and function-effecting features of traditional watery settlement, finally, mixing traditional culture with modern design, it will create a regional character of shopping experience for customers.The research object of this essay is the design method of pedestrian shopping district with Lingnan watery settlement. According to the research on the design theory of modern pedestrian shopping district, the developments and features of Lingnan commerce, and the regional style of Lingnan watery settlement, the design feature of modern pedestrian shopping street,Lingnan commerce, and watery settlement style can be concluded out. Basing on the fabric layouts, space sequences, alley space, architecture design, climate adapting and so on, combine tradition with modern to become the design key points and methods. Eventually, through applying on the actual projects,analyses the feasibility and operability of these methods.