A Preliminary Study Of Ecological Design Method In Modern Landscape Architecture

The ecological design in landscape architecture is an inevitable result of the era of ecological civilization of the 21st century. It was a series of environmental problems such as resource shortage and environmental pollution that lead to profound introspection and change over traditional mode of thinking and means of design. Currently, the understanding of systematical theory and practice of ecological design is still in chaos. The study of ecological design is propelled forward as a hot spot by diversified trend of landscape architecture profession and the background characteristic of ecological civilization times, expected to enrich the theory of landscape design and guide the practice of ecological design.First, the author defines the concept of ecological design in landscape architecture, and believes that the ecological design is the result of interaction between ecology and landscape design or between natural science and social science, and it could be regarded as a reply and a resolution for environmental problems. Second, the thesis makes a systematical retrospect of the procedure of development in the ecological design, in which four different stages are divided. Then the theory of sustainable development is introduced to lay the foundation of guiding ideology for the ecological design. According to knowledge of the conception of integral ecological design, the author proposes four basic principles which provide basis for analyzing the methods of ecological design.The most important part of the thesis is the fourth chapter. After analyzing and summarizing various examples, the author generalizes four types of methods of ecological design, which include clean energy usage, effective resource usage, design with localism, creation of healthy and comfortable surroundings. Theses four kinds of methods contain a series of concrete techniques, in which cyclic use of water resource, building materials and waste materials, together with restoration and reconstruction of natural habitat, are paid more attention to and frequently utilized in landscape design.According to systematical analyses, we hope to have a more profound understanding of the method of ecological design in landscape architecture and help to specifically guide the application of the theory and practice of ecological design.