| Summary: | 碩士 === 淡江大學 === 建築學系碩士班 === 93 === Due to the rapid change of city life, people in Taipei are bound to adapt into the new changing environment. The complexity and varieties of the changing environment often lead to great stress. Depressurization therefore is highly needed; and the trend of soft lounging spaces starts to appear in the city can be seen as an indices. The word “ lounge “ implies a spatial quality with comfort and pleasure, and can provide good sense of belonging for small groups for conversations. The lounge can help recuperate people’s senses with the low-key, stress-reducing ambience. It can also enhance the sense of fantasy through thematic environment design. The lounge playing the role of depressurization in the complex and crowded city, not only can be seen as break beyond bodily limitations in space, time and past experiences. It also indicates a great need for various public spaces in urban life.
The thesis employs the concept of “ lounge”, and involves direct observations as well as a review of history and backgrounds of various lounges in different societies and time periods. The relationships between the individual and the public space are interpreted, and parallel is made between lounge and small urban public space. Five aspects of public lounging space are emphasized, including (1) sense of freedom, (2) personalized, (3) temporary depressurization, (4) desirous, and (5) bodily sensation. They are the major themes in the design of Taipei lounging spaces focusing groups that are particularly high-stressed and short of resources. Based on observations on the environments used by these groups finding the sources of stress, strategies and design solutions are proposed for individual groups. Through the design of four different types of lounging places, it is intended to diminish the monotonous tone of public spaces in Taipei city. It is hoped that the design can provide alternatives and richness of choices in daily lives, and extend enlightening thinking for the possibilities of future city public place design.
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