Exploration of Strategies to Enhance the Openness of Community Borders

Under the influence of modernism, the modern big cities have been suffered from the metropolitan disease for a long time. The overall image of city is cut into separate parts by various inner boundaries of city. And all kinds of closed areas in city block the possibility of interaction between people, and also form many spaces that cannot be used. As China’s urbanization enters a platform period and urban construction shifts from incremental development to stock optimization, new development needs have new requirements for urban space. With China's release of Several Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Further Strengthening the Management of Urban Planning and Construction in 2016, which vigorously promoted the block system and open communities, the opening of communities has been put on the fast track. However, many border opening and renovation projects have resulted in a recurrence of openness and closure, reflecting the fact that the current work on community opening still lacks systematic theoretical and institutional safeguards. And un-der the influence of the three-year epidemic, people have gradually realized that open-ness is not always good and closure is always bad, and that the separateness and connectivity of the border are both important values of it. Therefore, in the process of opening up the border, we should not just pursue openness, but seek truth from facts, and openly transform the border according to the current situation of the border as well as the openness and closure needs of the residents. This paper focuses on the issue of border opening of communities. On the basis of clarifying the concepts of community and border as well as its development, this paper classifies community borders based on various perspectives, and obtains characteristics that can be used to identify the types of community borders, including the border interface, the border cross-section, and the degree of border communication. In addition, the perspective of the degree of communication between things and people is the core indicator for measuring the degree of openness of the border of communities in this study. Subsequently, the common benign effects and issues of community border openness as well as measures that can improve residents' willingness to open up are summarized after relevant case studies. Based on this, the principles of openness and the specific design method of border openness are further refined. The complete process of applying the open border transformation method is as follows: 1. Characterization and classification of the border; 2. Assessment of the degree of openness of the border; 3. Application of the principles; 4. Determination of the design objective, i.e., the desired degree of openness; 5. Application of the design method of the border. After the methodological framework is determined, this study focuses on the border issues of two specific communities in Guangzhou City, and conducts an empirical study on the border openness transformation method of communities. The empirical study consists of three parts, the first part is the research of the site and the analysis of its type and degree of openness, supplemented by questionnaire research to better apply the principle of openness; the second part is the openness strategies under the guidance of the principles of openness; and the third part demonstrates the specific spatial structural adjustment and detailed designs.