Study of the comfort of urban visual environments in the city of Cheboksary

Abstract

The current research highlights the problem of ecology of the urban visual environment of a large city on the example of the capital of the Republic of Chuvashia, the city of Cheboksary (Cheboksary). Given the saturation of the city with complex geometric forms and objects of architecture of different styles and epochs, the authors considered it important to study the issue of the perception of the city by the population as a generator of natural influences on the visual sense organs. The subject of the study is the influence of architectural forms of buildings of urbanized space on the psychophysiological comfort of a person, as well as the level of noise pollution by vehicles of the city under study. As the objects of research the authors defined the buildings and architectural ensembles of the city. As a research method, the authors used testing with systematically selected formulations of questions to assess the general perception of aesthetic beauty in cities by residents. The main task of the authors was to define recommendations for creating visual and psychological comfort in the artificial urbanized environment of Cheboksary, as well as to develop a system for identifying irritants and factors of "urban stress".