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  • Research on the user behavior between China and USA elderly people in public space

    Article thumbnail: Research on the user behavior between China and USA elderly people in public space
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    Descripción/Resumen:
    The user experience difference between China and USA elderly people in using public space was discussed in this paper based on the questionnaire process. 1960 elderly people were selected from the four cities in Shanghai (China), Wuxi (China), New York City (USA), Cincinnati (USA) to complete the questionnaire, and the result shows the similarities and differences between the elderly people in China and USA. That is: The using frequency of the public space for the former is much higher than the later; the main purpose of the former in public space is sports and fitness, and relaxation is the chief choice of the later; weather condition and easy communication are the key factors for former to participate in public space, while timing is that for the later; all the elderly people in the two countries are favorite on the sports and fitness, but the party chatting is the feature of the former and the sightseeing is the feature of the later; the facility requirement is the most important attributes for the former to the public space, and the interaction design is the unique demands of the later, while the former had no interests on that demands. In the end, the reason for all the similarities and differences were analyzed in this paper, and the culture, the economics, as well as the politics factors were discussed in detail.
    Creador/Autor:
    Wei, Na and Xin, XiangYang
    Peticionario:
    Lora Alberto
    Fecha modificada:
    11/30/2017
    Fecha modificada:
    02/08/2018
    Fecha de creacion:
    2017-10-31
    Licencia:
    Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

  • Research of the New Space in Vernacular Dwellings of Jiangnan Area during Mid- Ming Dynasty

    Article thumbnail: Research of the New Space in Vernacular Dwellings of Jiangnan Area during Mid- Ming Dynasty
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    Article
    Descripción/Resumen:
    In recent years, architecture culture study is a popular direction in traditional vernacular dwelling research of China. Architectural culture, as the metaphysical part of a building, not only influences the formation of the building in design period, but also dominates the usepattern of the building after construction. However most of studies started with material form of dwelling from architectonic prospective ignored that architecture is a phenomenon of culture. The study of vernacular dwelling from cultural and other related academic fields is very necessary. Bei-nong is a transportation space in traditional vernacular dwelling of Jiangnan area in China. This paper tried to use the methods of urban history research to investigate this space. First of all, the particular time and region of bei-nong appearance has been observed and defined from historical and cultural background. Then, appearance reasons have been analyzed based on the social context and mainstream philosophy during the scope of time and region. In the end, the physical and social functions and the architecture construction of bei-nong have been summarized and ratiocinated from the former conclusions according to inductive reasoning theory. A real and comprehensive bei-nong is showed in the result of research, not only the physical form and history of architecture but also a history story about that place and time.
    Creador/Autor:
    Wei, Na; Huang, Ying , and Guo, Weiming
    Peticionario:
    Lora Alberto
    Fecha modificada:
    11/21/2017
    Fecha modificada:
    11/21/2017
    Fecha de creacion:
    2017-10-31
    Licencia:
    Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International