A Theoretical Framework for Constructing Biophilic Urban Nature Based on the Analysis of Biophilic Aesthetics Cognition and Its Landscape Space Carriers

Abstract

Guiding people to form biophilic aesthetic cognition is an effective means to enhance public ecological awareness. The research and practice related to the biophilia have mostly focused on the pure natural science and the micro and medium space scales, however, there is relatively scarce research on a comprehensive framework of the planning and design methods of biophilic landscape space at the urban scale. Based on the analysis of biophilia and biophilic aesthetic cognition, as well as the empirical research on biophilia promoting environmental preference, put up that nature, wild nature and urban nature are respectively the totality, origin and living landscape spaces supporting the occurrence of biophilic aesthetic cognition. Meanwhile, through three contents of design points, planning pictures and living visions, and with the urban biophilic green network, urban biophilic green community, and one-step away from nature as a scale framework, the living landscape space construction bearing the cognition of the biophilic aesthetics, namely the biophilic urban nature construction, was mainly explored. The aim is to provide useful reference for the construction of biophilic aesthetic cognition, and the identification, planning and design of its landscape space carriers.