A Study Of Outdoor Children’s Game Space Of Residential Areas

Game is an indispensible part in children’s life. Game can bring children a lot of opportunities for imagination and creating values. Residential area, as the closest space in children’s daily life, is the place where children play most frequently and the biggest space environment that carries children’s growing experience. Therefore more considerations and concerns should be given to the planning and design of outdoors children’s game space in residential areas.Three residential areas in Beijing were selected as samples. By using a combination of outdoor observation, questionnaire survey and random interview, several problems were found. Summing up the defects of space number, space security, nature and communion. Finally several principles are raised and elaborated towards the issue of outdoors children’s game space planning and design in residential areas. The conclusions of entire article include:（1） From children, summing up the demands for children’s games in the physical, psychological and intellectual. Discussing the features of children’s game in the residential area and the impacts of environment in residential area to children.（2） This paper analyzes the children’s game spaces in residential areas on the space composition. Making a detail analysis of the present situation of spaces and combining with the groups’using situations, making the qualitative and quantitative analysis of the children’s games spaces in residential areas. Finding and summing up the problems.（3） For the previous survey, making up from the overall planning and design of children’s game space in residential area and cannot make children’s game space separated out. The independent design is not well to meet the needs of children and in large will reduce the space utilization. While the space security, nature and communion also affect the association of children’s game.（4） Making a "function homogenization" model, forming a continuous space system in residential area to facilitate children to game. Through the organization of such a system to maximize attract children to the game and improve the use of frequencies. In this system, design the each space and organize the transportation routes. Highlighting the nature and communion and reducing the security risks,_<sub>5 Pointing out the organizational characteristics of children’s game space and as a basis for the detail design of the space.