Highway Landscape Aesthetic Experience: Perception Principle and Psychological Process

Abstract

As the essential public assets for sustainable development, Highway should provide for people not only the enjoyment of convenient and safe transportation, but also the fulfillment of visual pleasure and aesthetic appeal. Taking the highway as the aesthetic object and making the research in aesthetic perception and the process of psychological experience of the aesthetic subject are of great importance to highway landscape planning and design. The aesthetic subject and object of highway landscape are defined and their relationship between the two is explored based on the analysis of characteristics and principles of highway aesthetics in the paper. And the conception of the highway landscape aesthetic field is also introduced. In view of the aesthetic characteristics of highway landscape, the aesthetic process is studied in detail from three phrases of aesthetic expectation and aesthetic attention, aesthetic expansion and aesthetic perception, and aesthetic dispersion. Taking Guangdong Fokai highway for example, the aesthetic psychological expanding process of highway landscape is finally analyzed.