Relationships between Design Concept and User Awareness/Behavior in Greening Space of Suburban Large-scale Commercial Facility

Abstract

Recently creation of green spaces has been proceeding in the suburban commercial facilities. Few studies have focused on the necessary functions for users of these suburban green spaces. In this study, we conducted interview surveys both to landscape designers and users of newly developed commercial facility in the suburbs of Wakayama City, central Japan, and investigated the relationships in expected green space functions between them. As the results, designers’ intentions were matched with users’ behaviors particularly in viewing and walking. However, installations of symbolic nature designs were not well perceived by users probably because it was too generalized to prefectural scale nature images without detailed considerations of local natural environment in the study area.