Visual Evaluation and Analysis of the Architecture for Scenic Tours Based on Psychophysical Methods

As part of the infrastructure to facilitate tourist activities, the architecture for scenic tours is a key component of the landscape in scenic spots. The design and construction quality of such architecture has an important impact on tourist satisfaction. Through psychophysical methods and environment preference theory, this work conducts visual evaluation and analysis for a certain amount of the architecture for scenic tours in an attempt to locate the main factors of influencing public preference of such architecture and to better guide future design and construction of such architecture. In addition, this work combines the architectural design concepts and institutions of American and Taiwan national parks to propose a design policy of the architecture for scenic tours at the institutional level. The policy serves as management and policy-making reference for the administrative department for scenic tours.