Research On The Application Of Local Landscape Elements In The Landscape Design Of Ancient Towns

"Vernacular landscapes" is the carrier of inheriting historicalcontext and keeping the local features.For example, the reasonableapplication performance will easily resonate in the design of the ancienttown landscape. Along with the speeding of urban integration process,itwill produce a series of questions. The ancient landscape characteristicsof convergence, serious ecologic damage, the loss of the historic contextand many other things give an impact to the maintaince and perpetuateof the ancient town culture. In this way,protectting the ancientvernacular landscapes, mining town local characteristics has become alandscape architect’s unshirkable responsibility.Nanyang town, as one of the ancient canal town in our country, is thecommercial port wharf on the canal. It not only records the prosperityculture of the canal, but also embodies the contemporary cultural lifeof the lake district residents. At the same time, nanyang town is a partof the Nansihu lake, around the water, and abundant resources also addeda characteristic culture for the ancient lakes. Protect and develop theseculture is respect for the ancient town of context, and is a requirementfor buildding the ancient native characteristics. Just becausethis,Nanyang town of rural landscape design is a significant researchsubject.This article obtains from the background of the subject, summarisethe research status at home and abroad, introduces of provincialism andVernacular landscapes and related concepts.Then offersa brief analysis of the local landscape elements extraction method,thusextracting local landscape elements. Through the generalizations ofLandscape elements, based on its attribute and forms,it can divided into"things","thing",and "meaning".The main part of the article first analyze the vernacular landscapeelements in landscape design in the use of social significance and valueof local culture，And then put forward the Application principle whichmeets the process of ural landscape design,the use of local content,highlighting local things, communicate the meaning of local design.Afterthat, introduce the ocal cultural background of Nanyang town. sum theancient town of vernacular landscape elements up in water, wood, room,fishing, art of five parts to resolve the features of the local naturalenvironment, buildings, and the humanities landscape. Then enumerateseveral kind of vernacular landscape elements application form: display,exaggeration, agglomeration, lead to borrow and so on, then illustraterespectively based on the local landscape elements of nanyang town.In order to better guide the practice in the theory, the articleresearched in-depth based on nanyang town landscape design, Throughexample validation to enriching and complementting of ancient town landscape design theory system. Finally,Overall summary of the ancientvernacular landscape design in our country, and puts forward thinking forits development, and prospects the future development prospects.May thelandscape designers will pay more attention to it.