Modern Living Environment, Water Landscape Planning And Design

Along with the development of the economy, people pay more attention to the residential landscape design. Of all the landscape elements, water which human lives on, is closest related to people's surroundings. The building of waterscape is always the hot topic in the field of landscape design. Starting with study of western and oriental tradition and deriving the distillate of the FengShui, the author tries to research people's visual and mental experience of waterscape and analyses some examples. Systemic discussion is given to the plan and design of the residential landscape. A viable ecological method of maintenance and father of water is put forward to adapting to the needs of ecological residential environment.