Study On Outdoor Body-building Facilities Design For The Urban Elderly

Along with the faster course of China's population aging, the proportion of the elderly in population has become larger and larger, which has brought more and more conspicuous influence on the society. The development of the times and the current severe status of China's population aging problem demand that we designers pay more attention to the special demands and desires of the elderly who is one part of the disadvantaged population and provide real design service that they need.The urban elderly who often takes part in outdoor body-building activities is the most active part population in the National Body-building Campaign. The idea of keeping healthy and getting happy though outdoor sports has been gradually accepted by most of the urban elderly. Under such background, this thesis chooses outdoor body-building facilities design for the urban elderly as the study object.The current study situation of outdoor body-building facilities design for the urban elderly in China is almost a blank, which has various problems to solve. In these problems, physiological and psychological characteristics are the most aspects. The urban outdoor body-building facilities mainly are National-fitness-route, which face to mass users and don't completely fit the elderly; therefore this thesis will have some academic and practical significance.The first part of this thesis mainly sets forth main content, purpose and the study program and the current severe status of China's population aging problem; the second part is the study on the current design situation of the outdoor body-building facilities for the urban elderly and their outdoor body-building situation; the third part gives a minute analysis of the physiological and psychological characteristics of the elderly; the fourth part is the key part of this thesis, which studies on how to design suitable and humanistic outdoor body-building facilities for the urban elderly; the last part of this thesis is the conclusion and some expectation.