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Expression Of The Spirit Of Place In The University Campus Landscape Design

Posted on:2013-11-20Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J QiaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2252330395978886Subject:Landscape architecture
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In the recent years, the development of educational reforms and promoted a large number of new construction and renovation of the campus. In the frequent and rapid changes, many places full of situation and memory disappeared from the campus. The traces left behind in the long years. A new campus environment has been difficult to find a share of the memory of the precipitation, replaced by the monotony of campus planning, cold and monotony. On the other hand, the development of university campus to a certain degree of saturation, the campus environment, the focus will shift to the old re-integration of the campus environment, as well as a continuation and update of the historical context on the campus.We have had such an experience, whenever exposure to a strong historical heritage and enjoyed a high social reputation of the school will always feel as if a living things in constant collision with our soul. A campus rich in the spirit of place is intertwined by the rational and the romantic. The campus buildings, flowers and grass all about the history of the campus and tell the stories of people who lived here. Spirit of place because of its focus on the mental emotional experience, plays a positive role to create a campus environment with a sense of belonging. The positive spirit of the place plays an important role on the teachers and students.The full paper is divided into six parts. In the first part, on the basis of domestic and foreign research, I summarized some problems existed in the planning of the campus nowadays and propose the issue that the missing of the "place spirit" in the planning of campus. The development trends of the campus planning are founded by analysis of the historical evolution in the second part. The third part is the theoretical basis of the whole paper. The concept of the place spirit is introduced. We also give detailed philosophical and theoretical explanation. With the theory of the place spirit, we summarized the main manifestation of it in nowadays campus:Their aesthetic effect, Regional spirit,Historical context of the campus and The needs of teachers and students. The specific performance practices are summarized in the fifth part:Its beautiful environment, Injection of emotion, Teachers and students experience, Details of the deal.At last, summing up the above theory, We do the landscape planning of China Medical University campus.
Keywords/Search Tags:Phenomenology, Place, Spirit of place, University campus, Landscape
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