The present situation of the landscape architectural practice in Korea is heavily biassed in favor of the planting material and its design. This thesis is an effort to show the students ad professional designers in this field a new horizon where the l...
The present situation of the landscape architectural practice in Korea is heavily biassed in favor of the planting material and its design. This thesis is an effort to show the students ad professional designers in this field a new horizon where the landseape design is enriched by the introduction of various structural elements.
One hundred landscape architectural structures are introduced with the description of their shape, their functions, uses; construction material, aesthetic values and the existing examples of each. They are grouped into the five categories, namely the garden group, the park group, the street group, the special group and the folklore group.
Some of the structures are impossible to be classified into one group because they are used in more than one group of areas. To supplement and clarify the confusing situation a table of their uses is constructed according to the specific landseape architectural areas. The detailed areas where the structures can be employed count thirty items but they generally fall into the above five categories and are named specifically.
If a designer is involved in a certain project and wants to know what kind of structures can be used he can find the quick references through this table. The landscape architectural practice in Korea can be enriched by adding the hard landscape(structures) to the soft landseape(plants), resulting in the harmony and opulence.