Studies On The Design Of Mega-Architecture For Home Furnishing Exhibition And Retail

There are always essential changes about human beings lives on the different stages of social development. If the lives of human beings at the preliminary period could be described as the conflict and activity between nature and artificiality, the essential of human beings lives at the senior period should be the intercommunication and services between people. As the accelerated development of global economics, there is a massive improvement of people's living standard. People could not be fulfilled with just having adequate food and shelter any more, they consume on those possessions that can ameliorate living conditions and environment positively at a rather higher proportion now. And there is also a change as to people's consume behaviors; it more likely turns up to be 'concentrated consume'. The modality of commercial architecture is evolving along with the constant development of social economics as well. Base on such kind of circumstances, it engenders of mega-architecture for home furnishing exhibition and retail, and this mega-architecture is developing dramatically right now.Under the background mentioned above, this project studies those mega-architectures for home furnishing exhibition and retail, generally in Xi'an, and gives an outspread analysis and discussion of the mega-architecture based on the related theories and actual cases. And there is a hope that this project could make a contributive discussion on the theory to the studies, designing and manipulation of mega-architecture for home furnishing exhibition and retail. There are six chapters of the project. Chapter One introduces the background, aims and signification of the study, domestic and foreign researches about the mega-architecture for home furnishing exhibition and retail; Chapter Two expatiates the concept of the mega-architecture; Chapter Three presents the distributing characteristics of the mega-architecture in the city layout; Chapter Four is the main part of the project, it gives explanation in details on the functions and space peculiarities of the mega-architecture, and also there is an analysis of this type of architecture in the industry, and the specialities in the designing of fire control of the mega-architecture have been interpreted in this chapter as well; Chapter Five gives two case studies on DaMing Palace Building Material and Home Furnishing Retail Park in Xi'an and JiaLe Home Furnish and Appliances Expo Centre in YinChuan, which presents actual arguments to the designing specialities stated in the previous chapter; and at last, there is a conclusion to the whole project in Chapter Six.