Research Of Water-enjoyable-space Planning And Design On Urban Waterfront Area

Water is the liveliest emphases in the nature, and injects natural life and poesy into a noisy city. Urban waterfront areas own open waterscapes, the value of the waterfronts had been understood in the past years. As the chance of urban renewal, waterfront development creates a large amount of general benefit of environment, society and economy. Analyzing the motility, the predominance of urban waterfronts is accessibility to water for people. So this article chooses the most active space in urban waterfront area (water-enjoyable-space) as the research object; analyses the elements of human and object to construct Water-enjoyable-space; and then makes comparative overall researches on method system to construct Water-enjoyable-space.This article comprises six chapters. Chapter one sketches the background of waterfront development, research purpose, meaning and approach. Chapter two illustrates the relationship between human and water, and draws a conclusion that accessibility to water is nature of human. Chapter three explains the concepts of water-enjoyable-activity and water-enjoyable-space on urban waterfront area, and the relationship of them. Chapter four analyses the elements to construct water-enjoyable-space on urban waterfront area, then advances the goal and principle of design. Chapter five mainly advances a relatively systematic method about making a water-enjoyable-space on urban waterfront area from urban design, architecture design and environmental elements design. Chapter six introduces the practice in the concept plan for Ezhou waterfront area.The core content of this article is how to make active and attractive water-enjoyable-space on the urban waterfront area. It's important to respect human activity. So the method system is accord with human's demand of psychology and emotion, and expects to really reflect the care to people.