Study on the Evaluation of the Open Space Located in the Natural Area

Abstract

This study attempt to evaluate the recreational value of various open spaces (forest, waterfront space, and free open space) located in the natural park based on clarifying the relationship between the physical conditions of these open spaces and human responses (users' activity pattern, users' cognitive evaluation and feeling of satisfaction). On this standing point, it was proceed analyses using the informations which were collected by interviews to users who were in these open spaces at the natural park of Osaka Prefecture. Through this study, the following findings were obtained; 1) In the forest, the evaluation of openess is low but the evaluation of naturalness is high according to the type of forest.On this occation, the forest isused for the nature watching and education. 2) In the free open space, the feeling of openess and comfortable is high. Flat free open space is used more statically and slope below 5°-8°slope is used more restful. 3) The stream of water front space improve the feeling of comfortable and the falls is used more visually.