Details Of The City: Study On Design Principle And Method

The public space is the essential part of the city environment. In fact, people are regarded as its corpus. It's the place for social activity that is promoting social and living affairs taken place. The important mission that is faced of urban design is to promote the quality of public space. In recent years, some effective developments have been proceeded in China, but many are not satisfied. Most of the public space developments put great emphasis not on quality but on quantity. Especially, there are too many copy phenomenons without system of deeply study on designing details of the city.Two levels that thesis proceeds from the study on details of the city. Details not only are single elements in the city, but also are organism parts of the constitution of city space. Great emphasis must be put on the relationships of the elements when studying detail design of the city. So there are several relationships must be taken into account which based on the study of the basic design request, essential design element and foundational design skill. They are the relationships of details and ergonomics, buildings, subdivided spaces and the quality of space, to study the choice of details, the arrangement of details and more important, the creation of details. The design of details of the city is a kind of adaptability design, so the design of details of the city must adopt the proper design method. Combined with the design practice, the topic is further argued and enriched. Study on detail design is not only for offering guide of public space developments of the city, but also for attaining the city space environment quality's exaltation and really realizes "for people".