Study On Representation And Strategy Of The Place Trait In Modern Landscape Architecture

The practical paradigm of modern landscape architecture has been extended to the whole earth from the gardens in a narrow sense, and the challenges under the background of times present a new attribute differ from the traditional landscape architecture. In the present age of material prosperity and converging value orientation, while a new identity crisis of circumstance is quickly spreading to modern landscape architecture, people's specific existence feeling given by a particular environment is becoming blurred.The paper introduces the place theory come from an identity crisis and architecture phenomenology into the process in modern landscape architecture planning and design, and then searches for the methods to achieve the cognition of environmental trait, based on people's feelings and experiences in space. The author explores the methodology of landscape architecture place design which has clear trait and is in accordance with modern value system, and adopts various study approaches to establish its own orientation and identity for modern landscape architecture.The paper, based on analyzing the background of sociology and philosophy, combines the findings of domestic and international place theory with modern landscape architecture, and analyses the intension and extension of phenomenology and environmental psychology. Then, the paper systematically introduces the typical characteristics of landscape architecture place trait, such as age demands, formation mechanism, variability and stability, and explores the complexity and comprehensiveness which are presented under the background of current identity crisis. All these establish the concept platform for the whole research of the paper.Basing on the directional history research, the paper clarifies the landscape architecture place concept in the history of China and western countries, that is, from a modern angle discussing about that how the ancients build the senses of landscape under the background without an identity crisis. By analyzing the view of nature and philosophy of China and western countries, the author has understood the relationship between environment subject and perceived object, and has found the similarities and differences between the landscape architecture place concept of China and western countries. The research provides reference for modern landscape architecture design.The main theoretical research part of the paper states the representation of place trait of modern landscape architecture, and from the viewpoint of human perception defines the concept and implications of representation in a specific environment. After that, the author sums up four influencing factors:entity, space, events and perception subject, and then gives a profound and systematic study according to each factor and explores the mechanism of all sorts of factors.The analysis of representation factors provides basis for strategy discussion. Basing on the background of modern society and value system, the strategy of building place trait of modern landscape architecture macroscopically is divided into three types:strengthening and supplement from the place, conduction and catalysts of perception's return as well as balance and regeneration of environmental adding. In the light of different sites, each strategy contains its own design approach. And, based on classification of sites, the paper expounds the expression and building of place trait combining large amount of excellent designing cases in domestic and abroad.The paper makes some necessary researches and thinks on the phenomenon that modern landscape architecture in China lacks place trait. From the respects of epochal challenges in place building, the one-sided view in the process of building process and so on, the author gives a systematic analysis of the current situation of landscape architecture place building in China, and makes active exploration combined with two cases which the author participated in. Building place trait is a process of human perception for the environment, thus, we must hard compose build perceptible environment to achieve the orientation and identity based on the site conditions and regional features.