The Research In Creative Design Of Commemorative Landscape

The commemorative landscape is a comprehensive regional environment which couldbring people not only material benefits but also spiritual comforts. That is, thecommemorative landscape could recall people of emotions, nostalgia or image, at the sametime to archive a better understanding about the history. Therefore compared with otherlandscape designs, the commemorative landscape has much more spiritual and cultural value,increasingly occupying the important part of landscape art of human beings.Based on the idea of rational commemorative landscape, the creative design ofcommemorative landscape is expressing a motional creative design which embodies thediversity and infinite creativity, combined with rationality and sensibility, eventually realizethe essence of the commemorative landscape design as well as the soul of creative designworks.Since the20th century, due to the impact of modern Western thoughts, there was adramatic transformation about the landscapes of our country for both form and content. Theserious influence on different culture between Eastern and Western bred the brand new formof landscape design which brought us a plenty of brilliant landscape architectures withcombination of both Eastern and Western style, leading to a rapid development of thedomestic industry. However, there were some cases which completely like plagiarismimitation appeared at the same time, regardless of local regional culture and traditional layoutof landscape architecture. Through the amount of reference literatures and materials as wellas information from the Internet, accompany with the study and Investigation about thedevelopment of commemorative landscape, it was found that there were several existingproblems about commemorative landscape in our country: Firstly, the lack of culture symbolfrom the internal of landscape, which result in the insignificant of the culture image feature;Secondly, the lack of diverse visiting and experience modality, lack of creative arrangementfor landscape layout; Thirdly, the Increasing number of derivative style of designs.The author devotes the variety of ways about commemorative landscape design withcomparison and research. Beginning with the viewpoint of creative design, the author givesa basic analysis about the key design element and principles of commemorative landscape, summarizes the methods of commemorative landscape design and makes a point ofcommemorative landscape design construction as below:1. The extraction and implantationof commemorative culture symbol;2. The techniques of space arrangement;3. The way tocreate atmosphere of memorial environment.Based on the research and theory from the predecessors, These three point could beindividually applied to practical projects as a theoretical base. Moreover, the author illustratesThe Haiyuan Earthquake Memorial as a typical case to analyze existing problems andprovides the solution, which could laid the foundation of commemorative landscape designdevelopment and practical application.Compared with other landscape design, designing commemorative landscape requiresthe designer to have not only the traditional spirits but also the great creativity and specialpersonality. Therefore the sophisticated culture, deep historical backgrounds, a betterunderstanding of symbols are also highly demanded for a brilliant designers. As a result, theresearch of commemorative landscape could be a breakpoint of modern landscape plan anddesign in our country.