The Effect of Environmental Factors in Water-Accessible Environments on Subjective Evaluation

• Main Authors: Tsai-Chi Hu, 胡采琦
• Other Authors: Ming-Yeh Hsieh
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/94997930113785813336

碩士 === 中原大學 === 建築研究所 === 98 === In recent years, with the raise living standards, people’ demands for environmental and life quality have been increased as well. They get the wish of owning some space for leisure in the urban jungle. For this reason, many water-accessible parks and water-accessible environments come into being. In review of the domestic research related to water-accessible environments, it is found that most studies focus on the regional planning, the interaction between water areas and urban area, as well as evaluation of the completed cases, while mostly ignoring the users’ feeling about water-accessible environments. This study aims to, by investigating the users’ personal feeling, know the relevance between various factors of the water-accessible environment and the subjective evaluation of the users, in order to offer reference for future water-accessible environmental planning and design. As for the methodology, this study takes the subjective assessment questionnaires to extract the subjective feelings of the respondents, and then conducts variance analysis to the results got from the respondents under various conditions, with the purpose to know the influence of the factors on the subjective assessment. The first stage of this study is to explore the subjective views of the users towards various factors of water-accessible environments. In the second stage, this study applies the most concerned items of the respondents---“trees”, “chairs” and “width of the river” into four virtual scenes of water-accessible environments, taking them as the main factors of the questionnaires. Finally, in the third stage, this study subdivides the most significant factor---“trees” into “arbors”, “shrubs” and “flowers & grasses” factors for investigating the effect of the planting types on the subjective assessment of the users. The findings of this study are listed as the following: 1. Among all elements of the water-accessible environments, “comfortable”, “safe” and “nature-related” conditions are most valued by people, while the layout of the “hardware facilities” are not the major components of the water-accessible environments. 2. Under the conditions of four types of water-accessible environments, the issue of “trees” will affect the respondents’ subjective assessment on all these water-accessible environments; the issue of “chairs” will affect their subjective assessment on the water-accessible environment of river banks and pools; and the issue of “width of the river” will affect their subjective assessment on the water-accessible environments of rivers. 3. In the water-accessible environments of streams, different “planting types” will affect the respondent’ subjective assessment on the water-accessible environments, among which “arbors” is most highly valued, followed by “flowers & grasses” and “shrubs” in sequence. While in the water-accessible environments of rivers, different “planting types” will affect their subjective assessment on the tranquility level, among which “shrubs” is most highly valued, followed by “arbors” and “flowers & grasses” in sequence.