Institute of Transportation, MOTC

Chia-Chi Yang, 2008.06
Graduate Institute of Transportation Science, Tamkang University

　　The architecture design in Taiwan over the past years was mainly referred to its utility design, but little effort to integrate environmental matters, such as aesthetics, cultural resources to make better quality in public.

　This makes the landscape in public domain monotone without characteristics and pleasure upon visual quality. The layout of common public art is usually installed at main hall of MRT station and park, however, the evaluation process seldom involves with warm discussion from local citizens instead of personal judgments from experts.

　　Lack of logical and scientific cause-effect explanations in aesthetics, the effectiveness of layout of public art remains dispute in practice.

　　This study integrates all possible aspects on aesthetics and perception in pedestrian environment based on recognition theory. The first stage of cause-effect relationships among aesthetic judgment process can be found by applying consensus map of ZMET(Zaltman Metaphor-Elicitation Technique).

　　Finally, the aesthetic judgment process of cause-effect path analysis is confirmed by SEM (Structural Equation Modeling), followed by some important findings and analysis in details.