Vernacular Landscape Element In A Nursing Home For Outdoor Environment Design Research

With the economic and social development, ageing is a growing problem in China, narrowing of the family structure caused a lot of empty-nesters and the appearance of old people living alone, so the Community institutions more and more attention. Nursing home as an important form of China’s social pension, in our country played a crucial role in the pension system. Nursing home in order to make our outdoor environment embody the emotion of the elderly care, follow the principle of humanization design, subordinate to the land based on the vernacular landscape and nature to create, analysis of nursing homes using vernacular landscape element in the outdoor environment design of significance and methods.Since China has a vast territory, each land has its own customs, article mainly in Sichuan-Chongqing region as the major research areas. Firstly, literature review, interviews, surveys and sums of sums in Sichuan-Chongqing region more significant and widespread vernacular landscape element, which can bring older people shared memories and emotional resonance of the beautiful landscape. From traditional of ChuanYu courtyard spatial structure to elegant brisk, and elegant rustic of traditional building style, from branded in everyone mind in the of spring March of rape, and neatly arranged of rice field to through countless times of home that article green stone, from when yard in of that tree fig tree to street side a column column of Indus, and osmanthus, from familiar kind of dialect dialogue to park tree Xia tea chat of life fun, no a not belongs to ChuanYu area people common of life scene and local memory, So some of the landscapes and scenes can bring security for the elderly, intimacy and a sense of control, in line with the psychological needs of the elderly living places. Then I choose the Sichuan-Chongqing region four is more representative of the nursing home field research, and living in one of the old man talking about present nursing home in outdoor environments has used the vernacular landscape element and places for elderly living outdoors experience and vernacular landscape against nursing home improvement building advice. Then in reference local landscape elements in residential, and city square, modern city space in the of design technique of based Shang, combined elderly groups unique of using needs, proposed has will local landscape elements application to nursing home outdoor environment of specific method and design concept, through will local plant, and local material, and local color, and local custom, and local art, elements into to nursing home of outdoor environment landscape in the, Nursing homes to create the rich local culture and style meet the emotional needs of the elderly’s quality of living environment. Finally to Chongqing, rongchang East Lake Retirement Center as case practice, applying these methods to the pension in the center of the design process, trying to build a traditional Sichuan and Chongqing culture and regional characteristics of local nursing homes to outdoor environments, for outdoor environment design of the nursing home in the future attempt to provide a new direction and design ideas.