The Research For The Urban Open Space Based On Female Users' Emotional Behavior Experience

The urban open space is the important part of city, it shows high value in improving city environment and enriching the local landscape . It offers the places for people daily recreation activities. People are paying more and more attention to the design of the urban open space. Now architects are facing an important subject on how to meet users' need in the open space designing.In the study of space, gender issue has always been ignored .With the development of the society, more and more women walk out of home to participate in commonality,but many of the open space cannot meet the women's expectation because of the lack of the consideration for their behavior, psychology and the relationship of people vs Environment. Focusing on the spatial perspective, the thesis probes into the social background in which the concept on the gender formed, and studies the living condition of the women to find their demands for the open space. It is important to bring in the gender's perspectives to open space planning and design, so this thesis focuses on how to protect the interests of women and reflect their demands.The thesis is guided by the psychology, sociology and environment behavior theory based on emotional behavior experience of female users. Traced to the development course of domestic and abroad open space, and combined the city culture and modem city build of XingTai,it gives us a detailed analysis and conclusion through abundant fieldwork, questionnaire and surveys about experience of different users in different space and time. At the same time of summing up the characteristics of the open space, it puts forward some design principles and constructive ideas. The ultimate aim of the study is to provide some new ideas and methods for the planning and design of the open space, in order to bring revolution allusion to the research of urban design and embody true care of women in open space and design really comfortable space for people.The results as follows:(1) Through the research and related disciplines in the field of open space survey,we found that the emotional experience can divide into five kind, they are happy and comfortable,hot and cool,prosaic and lonely,bright and open, crowded and chaotic, the female users have different emotional experience as in the different space and the different time,the female user's emotional experience will be influenced by the different age and different married composition.(2) The research indicates that the female users mainly have six kinds of behavior in the open space, including the walk, the stop and stay, the rest, the stroll and enjoying the scenery, the contact and the parent-child activity. The different environment and the different purpose can arouse the different behavior in the female users,and they will have the different experience through theirs various behavior.(3) As the investigation shows, the female users' satisfaction degree and the appraisal will change as her emotion behavior experience vary. At the end of the thesis, we summed up the factors which attract the female users in the open space and the different experience between the men and women, and suggested the advices about the design.