林試の森, 小石川植物園における子供の遊びと空間特性との関係に関する研究

A Study on Changes to the Form of Children’s Playgrounds in Japan by Analyzing the JILA Selected Works of Landscape Architecture

“…Therefore, it is appropriate to encourage talented designers to discover some interesting ways to make children themselves create, rather than to monotonously add a mass of elements to their designs. As for the increased awareness of the importance of natural elements in design, several previous studies [4][5][6]29] mentioned in the introduction revealed that researchers have already paid attention to the addition of natural elements to improve variety. Even the practitioners-designers-agree, according to the results of Pattern 4 and Pattern 5, that the importance of nature-related play experiences has increased and may been increasing as before in the future.…”

“…Many studies [4][5][6]12,13,18] focus on nature observation of play, which mainly relates to the ages of children. The obtained detailed results are as follows: as children grow up, their senses and elements of recognition of wildlife through nature trails or natural contact change: younger children are particularly sensitive to sight or sound, while older children are not [28].…”

“…Through child play, children get into contact with various natural spaces such as the mountains, rivers, and lakes [29]. Significant differences exist between space characteristics inducing nature-intimate plays and the characteristics with other no-nature-intimate plays [4]. It is also an efficient way to encourage the variety of actualities of children's play (especially of nature-intimate play), to add more natural elements while designing urban parks.…”

“…Referring to previous research with regard to the aspect of the relationship between the play and the space characteristics of playgrounds in Japan [4,13,17,38,39], the importance of the natural elements in children's playgrounds [5,6,23,29,40,41], and the extraordinary play conditions [20,21,42] in Japan, including the child-oriented categories of the play and, separately, playing space, were presented through the eyes of the children and included playmates, play objects, play equipment; roads, parks, schools, homes nearby, and so on. However, there were few papers classified by designers' position combined with the play styles and space characteristics as the design elements.…”