Abstract:Digital landscape is the combination of digital technology and landscape architecture. With the rapid development of computer information, Internet technology and their application to landscape design and planning, landscape architecture is entering the digital age. This article focuses on the process of landscape design and planning to summarize the application and practice of digital technology in landscape information data collection, landscape process simulation, visualization, analysis and assessment, parametric design and public participation.

Abstract:There are opportunities and challenges for the development of smart national parks with the coming of the big data era. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the future development trends of smart national parks in the new era. Firstly, the paper analyzes development achievements of smart national parks since the 12th Five-Year-Plan in three aspects, such as constituting the smart national park planning, improving the smart information infrastructure, and developing the smart application system. Meanwhile, the opportunities and challenges of the smart national park development with the new technology application of big data, internet of things, and cloud computing are discussed in three points of view, namely resources conservation, operational management, and public service. Then, the paper explores the concept, types, and characteristics of spatial-temporal big data of smart national parks accordingly. While there are two main classes, ten medium classes, and thirty sub-classes in types, there are five characteristics like multi-sources, objectivity, dynamics, currency, and precision. Finally, the future development trends of smart national parks are worked out in three dimensions, such as smart conservation, refined management, and precision service.

Abstract:Along with the change of the urban green space from quantity to quality in China, both the effectiveness evaluation and the optimization of urban green space need the establishment and implementation of the database. The Digital Landscape Laboratory (DLL) of Tongji University establishes the interdisciplinary collaboration platform, sets up the green space database combined with the characteristics of park green roadside green and vertical green. Based on the database, the urban green performance in high dense cities were analyzed and evaluated.

Abstract:The paper studies the environmental color of landscape along the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum axle wire, and utilizes qualitative and quantitative methods to analyze its color features and expressions of landscape color intention designed by Lyu Yen-chih. Aiming at the current alienation phenomenon of landscape environmental color in the Sun Yatsen Mausoleum and spatial form along its axle wire, the paper studies environmental color problems along the southern section, middle section and northern section of its axle wire separately, and explores the optimization methods of landscape environmental color based on color quantization technology.

Abstract:Measurement, analysis, adjustment and reconstruction of the topography is the foundation of landscape architecture planning and design. owing to the development of computer technology, the digital topography can be shaped and reshaped through mouse, but the traditional physical sand box still cannot be replaced in the present stage because of the perceptual initiation of physical sandbox and the flexibility of human hand. Based on researches on the constructing and shaping technology of topographic model and the projects which combined with digital technology and the physical sandbox, a topography design system based on augmented reality sandbox is constructed. Combining advantages of physical sandbox and the newest digital technology, the system can fully mobilize people’s intuition and high-speed analysis of computer, and enhance the method of topography design in the landscape architecture planning and design.

Abstract:Relationship and linkage path between rural housing and farmlands have been the core issues of rural space. From the perspective of rural households, this paper uses the technology platform of ArcGIS to make a pilot study on Huangmei town, Hubei province. By the means of the transportation network construction, it puts forward the linkage model of rural housing and farmlands to identify the relation between them, and obtains the frequency of optimum traffic by simulating and evaluating their linkage path. Then, it summarizs three linkage models between rural houses and farmlands, namely External Stray Mode, Internal Cross Mode and Intersection Mode, to describe the space logic of the walking paths between rural housing and farmlands. It’s expected that it will provide references for relevant studies on the relationship between living and working space in new socialist countryside.

Abstract:Lishan New Village is located in the south of Lishui City away 23km, whose new rural construction was implemented since 2009 under the call for “Beautiful Village”. Its construction was carried out through unified design combined with self-construction, which lasted for 3 years. Field studies are conducted in different periods, and it is found out the phenomena of spontaneous addition and alteration by villagers in the process of selfconstruction and utilization. By studying reasons for these phenomena, three characteristics in construction and utilization of village houses of mountainous area in south Zhejiang are abstracted, which may give a light on new rural house design.

Abstract:Based on the development of Construction Solidarity in mainland China led by Hsieh Ying-chun, this paper chooses three villages where Hsieh’s team carried out residential construction practice to make comparisons between self-built residences and typical cases built in Construction Solidarity mode, and concludes the design team’s concern on housing in different phases from three perspectives, so as to provide experience for reference when architects take part in rural housing.

Abstract:Contradiction plays an important role in Louis Kahn’s works in which rationality and irrationality are equally displayed. In the process of pursuing forms and light, Kahn insists on real appearance of construction and opposes decorations when he deals with architectural details. This paper expects to get a general and systematical idea of the nodes by analyzing and classifying Kahn’s works, we can summarize Kahn’s style of detail design in distinction, concealment and contraposition, which can be included in his design philosophy of classicism and structure rationalism. For the classicism bringing out the distinction, concealment and contraposition, and meanwhile distinction is the significant part of Kahn’s rationality in architectural structure. It is the mutual function of tectonic order and classic pursuit that makes up the expression of Kahn’s nodes order.

Abstract:In the developing process of small coastal towns, the key point is the spatial planning of the coastline. This paper mainly analyzes the existing problems in space utilization of coastline of coastal small towns from three aspects: land area use patterns, maritime space use methods and the compatibility of the two, on the basis of field research in the coast of Fujian Province. It also preliminary discusses the corresponding spatial planning strategies.

Abstract:China is at the beginning stages of building national park system. Community participation, as a component of national park management system, is an important guaranty for the local community to seek economic and social welfare in the national park. This paper is based on the review of the recent researches of national parks, nature protection area, scenic areas and foreign experience of community participation in the national park system. What’s more, based on the collective choice theory, this paper, from the development and implementation phase, puts forward seven community participation system design principles: clearly defined land border and action subject; rules adapted to local conditions; the government recognition of community autonomy; improving the supervision mechanism; setting classification sanctions regime; establishing a mechanism for conflict resolution; building a nested type management system.

Abstract:In recent years, disasters happen frequently in village areas, which have caused serious losses. Therefore, it is of great significance to draw a comprehensive disaster prevention plan, but specific drafting struggles to make progress. The village comprehensive disaster prevention plan should be unique rather than completely follow the urban one. The paper analyzes problems of the plan, including the imperfection of instructional legal system, and compiling system as well as difficulty in governing. According to the experience of American and Japanese comprehensive disaster prevention plan, the paper proposes that Chinese plan should improve the legal and compiling systems, pay emphasis on the practice of the plan, the construction of refuge space and explore new mechanisms to practice the plan, by taking Songbai Town as an example .

Abstract:By summarizing the general laws of urbanization and the evolution process of China’s urbanization, it’s found that there are amazing achievements for Chinese exploratory urbanization, and still many shortcomings. The main reason is a lack of stable standard to measure the quality of urbanization. This paper puts forward that human settlements is the important standard to measure the quality of urbanization is put forward. From the current situation of urban problems, it discusses the necessity: land urbanization is faster than the population urbanization; the process of urban-rural integration is slow; the contradiction between supply and demand of city water is sharp; the air pollution is particularly serious. From discipline foundation of human settlements, it elaborates the sufficiency: The existing measurement ignores the subject and of essence of the urbanization; Excellent talent teams and solid discipline makes its own the sufficiency of the theory and practice of the of human settlements sciences. From the essence and function of the city, it discusses the importance: Human settlements is the essence of the city; The human being is the subject of the city, and it is not the essence of the city; To measure the quality of urbanization should set up the “ people-oriented” awareness, but the human being should not be taken as the essence of the city, and what’s more, the human being should not be taken as measurement of the quality of urbanization; Residential function is the main function of the city, residential areas are the most basic functional areas of the city. The scientific outlook on development is used to lead the urbanization construction in the newtype urbanization, but the important premise is the stable standard to measure the quality of urbanization.

Abstract:The city pavilion is among the most indicative public landscape symbols in Chinese historical urban landscape (HUL). It contains landscape scenery, ritual education, social value and other multiple construction mechanism. However, current fragmented protection and construction that ignore the formation mechanism of city pavilion split its context continuity in HUL. It is an urgent problem in the protection and reconstruction of traditional urban landscape. The paper takes 251 city pavilion literature describing official constructions recorded in The Complete Works of Song as the object, and points out that city pavilion is an important content of the Song Dynasty city landscape construction. Through the statistics of word frequency of the pavilion building goal, the paper sorts out 3 kinds of pavilions: 1) the ritual system type, 2) educational type, 3) viewing type; and analyzes 4 kinds of spatial distributions: 1) axial symmetry layout based on the ritual, 2) enjoying topographical advantages from Fengshui, 3) on the gates and the wall, 4) being attached to the garden. Thus, the study ravels out the coupling relationship between city pavilion spatial distribution and its internal formation mechanism. This paper provides basic information for the protection and reconstruction of HUL.

Abstract:Historical gardens play an important role in the urban green space system, which inherit the historical feature. However, the problems of fragmentation of green space and the isolation of historical gardens are common in many cities. This paper, taking Chengdu historical gardens as example, put forward the view of bringing the historical gardens into the green space system by analyzing the status of historical gardens and urban green space. Historical gardens will be fallen into three parts: the core protected area, the buffer area and the marginal area, which are connected by landscape corridors in the city in order to make the gardens integrated into the green space system to a great extent and inspire its ecological functions. Also the renovation or new gardens should pay attention to the cultural preservation and heritage.

Abstract:The traditional town of Chengdu plain contains the rich vernacular cultural resources. This paper summarizes the image of the traditional landscape, the town space and the cultural symbiosis of market street that are the characteristics of the image. Then it takes Luodai Ancient Town as an example to analyze the entity elements of space image from the following five aspects and other aspects: streets, interface, area, nodes and landmarks that can be identified so as to explore how to build a distinctively traditional town spatial imagery with local cultural characteristics in the construction of the vernacular residential environment.

Abstract:The “Belt and Road” Initiative is a major strategic innovation which is based on cultural exchanges to promote common prosperity. Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, as nodes along the Belt and Road, with the rapid economic development, its regional ecological has also been greatly affected and its unique geographical element is gradually weakened at the same time. Based on this, it is urgent to do the research about the unique regional culture of northern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Starting from the contemporary regional architecture creation, this paper is based on the interpretation of the traditional architecture culture, uses the theory of construction, and proposes the contemporary architectural design strategies of the northern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, including conforming to the local climate conditions, appropriating local materials technology and meeting national spatial strategy of living customs based on the actual projects. Finally, it is concluded that the northern Xinjiang Uygur autonomous regional architectural creation should be based on local characteristics, and deeply excavate the connotation of “local”.

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