A Study On Public Rest Space

Public rest space is the site where people rest. It is an important part of the citywhere people live. Based on the behavior of people, the paper probes into public restspace. Rest space is not only made up of substance elements, but also decided by thesensibility of people and a lot of culture elements. The paper analyzes rest spaceroundly through the behavior and psychology of people. It studies on the whole designof public rest space by applying modern environment design methods. The paperclarifies how to create comfort and humanistic rest space in cities through thecomprehensive and systemic treatise. It reinforces the theories about public spacerecently. There are five chapters in this paper. In the first chapter, the paper sets forth the concept and function about public restspace, and analyzes the characteristics, main problems and deep-seated reasons ofpublic rest space. In the second chapter, the paper expounds the relationship between people andspace, and expatiates rest space according to the behavior characters of people in space. In the third chapter, the paper sums up technical guidance about the design of restspace through practical local investigation and analysis, and it also expatiates how tolocate rest space much more reasonably by programming control. The fourth chapter discusses the design principles and traits of good rest space first,and then it probes into how to create comfortable, graceful and humanistic rest lieu andmake it become the indispensable part in public space by the whole design. In the fifth chapter, the paper treats concretely the design of artificial installationsand natural sights in rest environments. It mainly expounds the design of seat andproceeds whole analysis about other factors synchronously in order to make the designof rest space much more perfect in the microcosmic details.