2003 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

The Effectiveness of design guideline regulations for improving streetscape

Research Project

Project/Area Number	14550605
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Town planning/Architectural planning
Research Institution	Tokyo Institute of Technology
Principal Investigator	OHNO Ryuzo Tokyo Institute of Technology, Interdisciplinary graduate School of Science and technology, Professor, 大学院・総合理工学研究科, 教授 (20160591)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	SOEDA Masashi Tokyo Institute of Technology, Interdisciplinary graduate School of Science and technology, Research associate, 大学院・総合理工学研究科, 助手 (80323814)
Project Period (FY)	2002 – 2003
Keywords	design guideline / streetscape / evaluation / simulation
Research Abstract	Municipal governments or developers make design guidelines to create a harmonious stresstscape in a new town. The regulations, however, have often decided arbitrarily without any empirical research. The present study employed a visual simulation system to test the effects of such physical features of the buildings as color, height, flatness of the building facade and its recess from the street on pedestrians' impressions of the place. Thirty subjects were asked to rate their impressions of "order", "simple", and to evaluate the atmosphere after experienced the simulated scenes. The results revealed some relations between the physical features and the pedestrians' response.