Virtual Reality Technology Aided Landscape Architecture Design Research

Digital Age's arrival, caused the urban planning design, the architectural design and the landscape architecture design has had the revolutionary change. Computer-aided design has been gone deep into the design process from beginning to end. Computer-aided design gives the designers endless images, at the same time the designers are able to deliberate their works to be more perfect and reasonable with the help of computer-aided design.Virtual Reality is also a kind of Computer-aided technology which is not alike other aided technology. regarding landscape architecture design, its advantage is mainly embodied in aided conceptual design and conceptual expression. Using VR at the process of conceptual designing, the experiencing of place will be more interactive and intuitional, the realness of place will be more embodiment as soon as possible. So it will give the designers a new path to create the concept, grasp the place, compare with different concepts, weigh the advantages and disadvantages, so the concepts will be more perfect and reasonable. At the experience of landscape architecture, the technology of VR synthesize many advantages of the old manifestations. It has the iconicity, the vitality and authentic. The decision maker and the public are able to done to scene, understand and sense the design purpose of the designers multiangly with the help of VS. this article will deep to study the aided effect when using this technology to landscape architecture, and the Operation Mode.In the first chapter of this thesis introduces the according of selected topic, scope and methodology, and technical routes. The second chapter discusses the digital age changes in Landscape Planning and Design of the new computer-aided design, and related content. The third chapter describes the concept of VR technology, theory and the application. The fourth chapter discusses the aided landscape planning with the help of VR from the theoretical level; From the practical level, the fifth chapter discusses how to use SketchUp and virtual reality software to build the virtual reality scene. ChapterⅥdescribes the technical assistance of two VR Application Architecture Design. The last chapter summarize the content and innovation of the disquisition, and also view the future of VR technology used in landscape architecture design...