Landscape architects need to focus on nature and the built environment simultaneously because the landscape is a place that relates to everyone’s everyday life. Comparing with the renaissance European garden and Chinese traditional garden, the Landscape today is more public and spatial which became closer to people’s everyday life.
- This is my first Large Landscape design work. My site is Foster City, which located in San Mateo County, California. Based on the calculation of Bay Shoreline Flood Explorer, almost all the area of Foster city will be flooded. Therefore, we need to take strategies to resist floods.
When we were doing the design of Marin city, what I was most concerned about was how to connect people, the environment, and our client: Red-legged frog through landscape design.
This kind of landscape design in which people participate and interact with it, I named it interactive landscape.
Before doing a specific design, I found some cases for analysis:
- Maya Lin uses reflective material and height difference design to link the visitor and the monument, allowing people to think about war and peace.
