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The Strategies for the Reuse of Old Industrial Buildings into Third Places
Liu Xin,
Panashe Whisper Matarutse
Issue:
Volume 6, Issue 4, December 2021
Pages:
64-72
Received:
10 September 2021
Accepted:
5 October 2021
Published:
12 October 2021
Abstract: A third place is any form of shared space for multifunctional use that promotes innovation, interaction, and cooperation with surrounding residents or users. Third places have become necessary in today's society due to the close integration between daily human life, work, and technology. The characteristics of third places are the diversification to meet different functional requirements, easily accessible and act as a middle ground for users from different backgrounds. Besides promoting social interaction, third places are also of great value in promoting healthier lifestyles, increasing the real estate value of the surrounding areas, and promoting community resilience during disaster times. This paper shows the transformation of old industrial buildings into third places to fill the gap for different functional needs for third places, promoting sustainable urban development and saving the old industrial buildings which otherwise face the threat of demolition due to continuous deterioration. Industrial buildings possess exceptional structural and architectural characteristics that can support many new third place functions. By searching through related literature related to the reuse of old industrial buildings and third places, different influencing factors are extracted and summarised to classify different space modes of third places into site space, ecological space, activity space, service space, and transitional space. The paper further summarises different strategies for transforming the old industrial buildings` structure, façade, and the different spatial modes of the third places.
Abstract: A third place is any form of shared space for multifunctional use that promotes innovation, interaction, and cooperation with surrounding residents or users. Third places have become necessary in today's society due to the close integration between daily human life, work, and technology. The characteristics of third places are the diversification t...
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The Influence of Different Evaluation Media on the Aesthetic Evaluation of Urban Parks
Qiang Wang,
Mingyuan Zhao,
Lanyong Zhao
Issue:
Volume 6, Issue 4, December 2021
Pages:
73-79
Received:
24 September 2021
Accepted:
20 October 2021
Published:
29 October 2021
Abstract: In the aesthetic evaluation of landscape under laboratory conditions, photographs or slides are the main type of evaluation media, and the research done by relying on this evaluation media has produced many meaningful aesthetic evaluation theories, but with the progress and development of technology, many new evaluation media have been used and studied, such as panoramic photography and virtual reality, which have improved and developed the traditional aesthetic evaluation theories. This paper takes Jinan city park in China as the landscape aesthetic evaluation object, and obtains different types of landscape evaluation media by shooting, which are four ways: Audio-only, Image-only, Video-only, Audio-video, and uses these four media ways to evaluate the park landscape and analyze the data to explore the influence of different media ways on the landscape evaluation results, in order to get the evaluation results closer to the real environment under the psychological state. The following conclusions were obtained: (1) Different evaluation media methods will have an impact on the aesthetic evaluation of urban park landscape, and the degree of impact depends on the sound and dynamic elements in the environment. (2) Sound landscapes have a superimposed effect on the aesthetic evaluation of urban park landscapes, with good natural sound and artificial noise enhancing and reducing visual evaluation scores respectively. (3) There are significant gender differences in the aesthetic evaluation of landscapes containing sound, which in turn affects the aesthetic evaluation of landscapes.
Abstract: In the aesthetic evaluation of landscape under laboratory conditions, photographs or slides are the main type of evaluation media, and the research done by relying on this evaluation media has produced many meaningful aesthetic evaluation theories, but with the progress and development of technology, many new evaluation media have been used and stu...
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Case Study on the Application of Agricultural Landscape at the Expressway Entrance of Hangzhou
Yang Wang,
Lingzhi Shen,
Yun Xie
Issue:
Volume 6, Issue 4, December 2021
Pages:
80-86
Received:
18 October 2021
Accepted:
9 November 2021
Published:
17 November 2021
Abstract: At present, under the new background of accelerating urbanization and deepening food crisis, agricultural landscape theory and its applications show great significance and practicality. With production value, leisure value and aesthetic value, agricultural landscape has unique value and effect on easing the conflicts between urban construction and agriculture, and promoting urban-rural integration. Here, the agricultural landscape space of three expressway entrances in Hangzhou was chosen to study. Then, the results showed that (1) the Zen Tea culture was integrated into the high-quality ecological terraced tea hill at Jingshan Entrance, which enables passers-by to appreciate the rich farming culture and Zen Tea culture the first time entering; (2) similarly, at Longwu Entrance which is charactered with the continuous tea hills, the designers emphasized the historical and cultural features of "Thousand Year Tea Town" by showing the tea culture, tea industry and tea life with elaborate landscape designs; (3) at last, a "rural-urban integration" landscape was presented at the Permaculture Park and the Welcoming Exhibition Area at the South Entrance of Hangzhou. In summary, introducing agricultural landscape into the expressway entrance not only creates a beautiful landscape space and an innovative cultural landmark with distinctive characteristics, but also grants the expressway entrance cultural, social and economic functions, and promotes urban-rural integration.
Abstract: At present, under the new background of accelerating urbanization and deepening food crisis, agricultural landscape theory and its applications show great significance and practicality. With production value, leisure value and aesthetic value, agricultural landscape has unique value and effect on easing the conflicts between urban construction and ...
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Assess the Distribution of Informal Green Space Using Google Street View in Ichikawa City, Japan
Ta Duy Thong,
Nguyen Van Lap,
Katsunori Furuya
Issue:
Volume 6, Issue 4, December 2021
Pages:
87-92
Received:
7 November 2021
Accepted:
30 November 2021
Published:
24 December 2021
Abstract: The green space provides many benefits for social, environment and ecological for urban life. There is the need to develop a proper plan to ensure the well-being of residents by use other space as supplemental for urban green space (UGS). Informal green space (IGS) was long use as a solution for shortage of UGS and being used widely in recently years. However, it hardly analyzes and manages IGS efficient by traditional survey method because of its characteristics. Google street view (GSV) is a geospatial platform provided free large ground-based database 3600 photographs along streets that available on web interface. It is high possibility to use GSV in assess the distribution of IGS for managing and planning urban greenery and master plan. Ichikawa city, Chiba, Japan covers 57.45 km2 while provides about 7.28m2 green space area per capita, far from meet the requirement 10m2. By choosing this city, the field survey result of previous research could be used to compare to evaluate the accuracy of the remote sensing method. GSV images are downloaded by Street View Download 360 from the network of interval point along the road to detect IGS. After considering the time to acquire GSV and other factors, the 78 meters distance is chosen. The DeepLab V3+ is employed as a semantic segmentation tool and be trained to classify and labeled objects in pictures then separate IGS to surround environment. The map of IGS distribution will be produced from the output data of DeepLab V3+ by using ArcGIS. The final map will be compared with the data of IGS distribution that were recorded in the research of northern part of Ichikawa in 2020 to evaluate the efficiency of this method.
Abstract: The green space provides many benefits for social, environment and ecological for urban life. There is the need to develop a proper plan to ensure the well-being of residents by use other space as supplemental for urban green space (UGS). Informal green space (IGS) was long use as a solution for shortage of UGS and being used widely in recently yea...
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