| These days,the China’s tourism railway industry has developed rapidly due to the demand of tourism industry and political influence.It is important to incorporate unique cultural imagery in the design to improve the cultural value and brand power of the tourism sightseeing railway.At present,the lack of systematic design method as guidance for design practice has caused difficulties to fully present the cultural imagery in the tourist train.Therefore,this paper aims to study the design method of cultural imagery in the CMF elements of the passenger compartment in tourist trains.Firstly,the relevant theories of cultural imagery were sorted out and divided into the representational and semantic feature layers,which clarified the way of expression for cultural imagery.This paper also studied the properties of CMF design elements,the design principles of tourist train cabins and the relationship between the expression of cultural imagery in CMF design elements through the compilation of CMF design theories.Furthermore,this paper analyzed the characteristics and designs of typical tourism railway route and discussed the diversity in design of different route and position.This paper also summarised the common elements of passenger compartment in tourist trains,such as the materials,techniques and design methods.The studies of trains with cultural imagery elements were compiled to conclude the types of cultural imagery expressions in tourist train design and also the design methods of cultural imagery in the CMF elements of passenger compartments as methodological guidance for cultural imagery expression.In addition,the perceptual imagery cognitive experiments established on the perceptual engineering research method aims to provide perceptual constraints for the design expressions at the semantic feature level.There were seven steps to obtain the final fitness rank between the color,material samples and the target cultural imagery to act as a reference for the colour and material selection in the design phase.The seven steps included establishing the CMF experimental,constructing the sample library,determining the CMF sample evaluation index,perceptual imagery evaluation,constructing the CMF sample imagery space,and evaluating the fitness between the target cultural imagery and the CMF samples.Finally,based on the methods and experimental results above,two cultural imagery themes of the CMF design,“Ancient Charm" and "Harmony of Nature",was completed by adapting both the representational and semantic levels in the design.The CMF design material list was also summarized in this study.The cultural imagery was expressed at both levels through the study of cultural imagery and semantic features design method based on perceptual engineering,which served as a reference for the cultural imagery design application and guidance for the design expression of cultural imagery in tourist trains. |
