Research On Planning And Design Of The Elderly Communal Outdoor Space In Shenzhen

Because of weakened social functions after retirement, the old have more leisure time, and their range of activities are limited within walking distance of the community. This requires more stages space to enrich their spiritual life. Shenzhen is a immigrant city, a large number of the aged moved here following their child working in Shenzhen.Their children are often too busy to attend to them, which l ead to a variety of mental disorders gradually. Communal activities can help the aged not only do exercise, but also get a new life experience and social interaction. With the development of aging population of Shenzhe, more and more participants will join communal activities, so it’s urgent to solve the space for constructing the activity scientifically and legitimately, therefore, the space for social outdoor activities have urgent needs and high research value.This paper takes the community of Shenzhen as the typical research area, takes the commual outdoor activities of the aged for the study target, conduct research on planning and design of communal outdoor space for the aged in Shenzhen, purposed to provide reasonable space for the aged’s communal outdoor activities.First, study the aging features and the communities in Shenzhen. Choose three typical communities as the research objects on four principle of community selection. With the observation statistics, induct the types and the basic content of communical outdoor activities, which will be used as the basis for the further research. Secondly, through questionnaire and field survey, Count and generalize the characteristics of the activities and the communal outdoor activities participants of the research community. Data include age, gender, activities, time and places of participants. Field survey combined interviewing method. Research the factors of the environment and space that the aged start activities in, generalize the characteristics of the space and problems from users and the professional designers. Finally, based on the above studies, three major targets of projecting the space of communal outdoor activities are put forward. From plan and design aspects, a discussion of the building methods has taken place. The planning is made up of the site layout, feature set and site size; the design includes space environment design, plant landscape and facilities configuration. Hopefully, this research can play a positive role in the constrution of the space for the communal outdoor activities of the aged and have some reference value.