Study On The Design Of Outdoor Environment In Urban Com Munity Under The Background Of Aging Population

ABSTRACT:The average age all over the world got a huge increase by the science and technology development in recent years, China is a great country in the amount of population and the trend of population increase will become more and more serious, aging degree is second only to Europe and the United States and other developed countries. With the implementation of the one-child policy, and great changes have taken place in Chinese family structure. The live and work pressure of young people becomes greater with the society and economy development, so the time for the young man live with their elders will become fewer and fewer. The cultural and economic level of elderly people have been got a rapid development, so they have a high requirement for living environment, and beginning to pay attention to the quality of the outdoor environment. But some community which is located in the large and middle city are still using the previous outdoor environment design, there is no doubt that this achievement couldn’t meet the elderly people’need. Therefore, how to increase the life level and outdoor environment will be an important project.In the first part, used the method of literature review; Then summarizes the relevant theory and current situation of the development in both home and abroad; Finally reveals the research purpose and research significance of this topic.In the second part, adopt the way of questionnaire survey field research of two residential area in China, summarizing the needs of old people in everyday’s live, mainly including physiological, social, and psychological needs, all this survey make a great contribution in the understanding the outdoor environment of urban community under the background of aging population.In the third part, the theoretical foundation for outdoor environment include Landscape and planning design, psychology, environment behavior, gerontology and sociology. Proposing the four cardinal principles and goals of the construction of Chinese elderly community environment based on above theory:principle of comfort, safety, communicative and legibility. The goal is designing a comfortable, safe, diversity and participated environmentIn the fourth part, on the basis of above analysis, proposing outdoor environment design strategy based on the aging of the city community, emphatically discussing and expounded on the venue layout, walking system, outdoor public space, landscape elements. And will comfort principles and site layout, safety principle and walking system, and one to one correspondence for communication principle, outdoor public space, readability principle, outdoor landscape elements.In the fifth part, this paper analysis of a case which is located in a city of Shandong province are basing the background of aging outdoor environment design, all this analysis which using the above paper mentioned principle and strategy to verify the article research results is realism, operability and validity.Finally, summarizing the guiding significance to the aging of the population in our country city community outdoor environmental design, the research results have the reference value for future outdoor environment design of urban community.