Research Article
Primary Study on the Feasibility of Tranquil Space Design Based on the TRAPT Model, Considering the Visual and Auditory Factors—Take Zhao-lin Park as an Example
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.24-2-2023.2330625, author={Huan Qin and Yuan-ting Liu and Li-yu Zhang}, title={Primary Study on the Feasibility of Tranquil Space Design Based on the TRAPT Model, Considering the Visual and Auditory Factors---Take Zhao-lin Park as an Example}, proceedings={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Engineering Management and Information Science, EMIS 2023, February 24-26, 2023, Chengdu, China}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={EMIS}, year={2023}, month={6}, keywords={tranquillity plants noise park building}, doi={10.4108/eai.24-2-2023.2330625} }- Huan Qin
Yuan-ting Liu
Li-yu Zhang
Year: 2023
Primary Study on the Feasibility of Tranquil Space Design Based on the TRAPT Model, Considering the Visual and Auditory Factors—Take Zhao-lin Park as an Example
EMIS
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.24-2-2023.2330625
Abstract
Recently, more and more Chinese citizens are suffering from the unhealthy noisy hazards, especially because of the increasing of the cars in cities. It is necessary to provide some tranquil space for people in order to improve the quality of their urban lives. This study applied one approach named TRAPT which combine the visual and auditory factors together to conduct the tranquil space design. The results revealed that the TRAPT is coincident with subjects’ tranquil feeling which evaluated by questionnaire survey. Also, some interesting and potential useful conclusions are shown in this study. (1) When TR is in the range of 4-5, upgrading the TR value could not significantly improve the tranquil feeling. (2) The plants’ layouts have different impacts of tranquillity. Widening the planting area to decrease the noise level would be more useful than that prolonging the planting area to upgrade the value of NCF. (3) Although, artificial elements would decrease the NCF value, some particular elements, such as buildings could also decrease the noise level. Therefore, not all the artificial structures must be banned, even the tranquil space need some man-made structures as noise barriers to improve the tranquillity in some cases. This research provides the rules that could be used as potential references to conduct the tranquil space design in future.
