Relationships between the visual preferences of urban recreation area users and various landscape design elements

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 573-582 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmet Tuğrul Polat ◽  
Ahmet Akay
Keyword(s):  
Landscape Design ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
Recreation Area ◽  
Visual Preferences ◽  
Urban Recreation

scholarly journals Understanding the Importance of Harmonized Landscape Design for Forest Education Centers in Malaysia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohd Kher Bin Hussein ◽  
Nor Syuriaty Bt Jaafar
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Landscape Design ◽  
Forest Environment ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
Natural Processes ◽  
Landscape Degradation ◽  
Forest Sustainability ◽  
Education Centre ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Forest Education

The Forest Education Centre is a place that provides environmental education facilities where the community, teachers and students can visit to learn more about the forest environment. Therefore, landscape design elements’ in this area which include buildings, should be visually in harmony with the sense of place and its surroundings. The design must concern form, color, materials, landscape degradation and preservation of natural processes. Unfortunately, landscape design elements in this area have been built based on in-situ approach where the absence of a ‘code of design’ in creating a well-built environment of landscape and architectural quality has contributed to inharmonious designs. This had led to the significant function of identity and meaning in securing the sense of place which was not adequately examined in the process. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to raise awareness among the stakeholders and the sensitivity towards the importance of harmonizing design in Forest Education Centres. Among the objectives of this study is to firstly understand the user’s perception towards harmonies designs in a forest environment. Secondly, it is to suggest harmonies design approaches towards forest sustainability. The intended audience for this paper include directors, facilities managers, landscape architects, forest officers, architects and engineers.

scholarly journals Push and Pull Factor: Determining the visitors’ satisfactions at urban recreational area

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-86
Author(s):  
Noralizawati Mohamed ◽  
Noriah Othman
Keyword(s):  
Publishing House ◽  
Pull Factor ◽  
Visitor Satisfaction ◽  
Recreational Area ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
Recreation Area ◽  
International Publishing ◽  
Push And Pull ◽  
Urban Recreation ◽  
Open Access Article

This study investigates the visitors’ satisfaction at the most popular urban recreational area, Kepong Metropolitan Park, Selangor. It presents the analysis and synthesis of information collected from an open-ended survey. Selected visitors were asked to state their opinions regarding overall scene and the answers were summarized and categorized in terms of several dimensions. As a result, the researcher found that the visitors expressed several comments and suggestions that could be used as push and pull factors in determining their satisfaction in the recreational area. These two dimensional phenomenons are very useful  as reference to researchers or designers to identify and fulfill the visitors’ satisfaction for future preparation of recreational area. © 2016 The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK.. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, UniversitiTeknologi MARA, Malaysia. Keywords: Push and Pull Factor, Visitor Satisfaction, Urban Recreation Area, Open-ended Survey

Geotourism product interpretation Rangitoto Island, Auckland, New Zealand

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Wittlich ◽  
Sarah Palmer
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Shield Volcano ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Volcanic Origin ◽  
Historical Aspects ◽  
Recreation Area ◽  
Number Of Publications ◽  
International Visitors ◽  
Guided Tours ◽  
Urban Recreation

Rangitoto Island, an island of volcanic origin, is a unique geotourism attraction and landmark of Auckland, New Zealand, capturing the attention of tourists since 1890. The island’s symmetrical cone and lava slopes rise gradually from the sea, making the shield volcano an iconic landmark for Auckland residents and a popular urban recreation area for domestic and international visitors. This chapter focuses on the effectiveness of different types of interpretive media (e.g. information signs and guided tours) as educative tools for geotourism which occurs in an urban context. It is based on a study which investigated which media were used most, how much visitors learned from them and whether visitors had a preference for a particular medium. While a number of publications address cultural and historical aspects of the island (Murdoch, 1991; Graham, 2005; Philips-Gibson, 2006; Kearns and Collins, 2006) and Rangitoto’s natural history (Wilcox, 2007), no publications have investigated tourism on the island and there has been no visitor evaluation of the island and its interpretive media.

DESIGNING LANDSCAPE DESIGN ELEMENTS USING CAD AND DESIGN GEOMETRY

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
V.V. Sukhomlinova ◽  
◽  
N.G Prous
Keyword(s):  
Computer Graphics ◽  
Surface Analysis ◽  
Spatial Model ◽  
Surface Modeling ◽  
Landscape Design ◽  
Descriptive Geometry ◽  
3D Design ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
Surface Of Revolution ◽  
Geometric Surface

The article discusses the laws of geometric surface modeling based on surface analysis using descriptive geometry methods and designing these surfaces using CAD and computer graphics. The paper gives an example of building an architectural vase as a surface of revolution with a curvilinear generatrix using KOMPAS 3D. Design stages with the creation of a spatial model are considered.

scholarly journals Effects of Landscape Design on Urban Microclimate and Thermal Comfort in Tropical Climate

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Yang ◽  
Yaolin Lin ◽  
Chun-Qing Li
Keyword(s):  
Heat Stress ◽  
Thermal Comfort ◽  
Real Data ◽  
Landscape Design ◽  
Water Bodies ◽  
Humid Climate ◽  
Urban Microclimate ◽  
Climate Conditions ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
Pavement Materials

A climate-responsive landscape design can create a more livable urban microclimate with adequate human comfortability. This paper aims to quantitatively investigate the effects of landscape design elements of pavement materials, greenery, and water bodies on urban microclimate and thermal comfort in a high-rise residential area in the tropic climate of Singapore. A comprehensive field measurement is undertaken to obtain real data on microclimate parameters for calibration of the microclimate-modeling software ENVI-met 4.0. With the calibrated ENVI-met, seven urban landscape scenarios are simulated and their effects on thermal comfort as measured by physiologically equivalent temperature (PET) are evaluated. It is found that the maximum improvement of PET reduction with suggested landscape designs is about 12°C, and high-albedo pavement materials and water bodies are not effective in reducing heat stress in hot and humid climate conditions. The combination of shade trees over grass is the most effective landscape strategy for cooling the microclimate. The findings from the paper can equip urban designers with knowledge and techniques to mitigate urban heat stress.

Mapping preferences for the number of built elements

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-67
Author(s):  
Dheyaa Hussein ◽  
Somwrita Sarkar ◽  
Peter Armstrong
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Visual Evaluation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Building Facades ◽  
Visual Preferences ◽  
Design Proposal ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between the number of design elements in the context of building facades in urban streetscapes and visual preferences of users to enable a more meaningful citizen participation in the design of local streetscapes. Design/methodology/approach This paper developed a web application, which manages experiments through programmatically creating scenes and displaying them online to participants using questionnaires. It collects preferences towards the number of design elements in the scenes and determines the statistical relationship between them. Findings The results offer an empirical description of a semi-convex relationship between the number of elements and preferences. They confirm that participants from a particular area inter-subjectively agree in their visual judgements towards the number of design elements, and justify the employment of a regression model fitted on the preferences of residents to assess design proposal in their area. Originality/value The paper offers an empirical description of the relationships between preferences and a wide range of values of the number of design elements and empirically supports that people from one area inter-subjectively agree in their judgements towards a visual aspect of the building facades. The study introduces a new analytical component, known as the vertex, which could alter future methods on the visual evaluation of the built environment.

scholarly journals Features of landscape design of eco-spaces for the purpose of education and upbringing of eco-culture in modern society

2021 ◽  
Vol 291 ◽  
pp. 05030
Author(s):  
Pavel Vasilenko ◽  
Elena Vasilenko ◽  
Natalia Barsukova ◽  
Valentina Pallotta ◽  
Tatyana Sichkar
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Landscape Design ◽  
Ecological Site ◽  
Purpose Of Education ◽  
Recreation Area ◽  
New Type ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Ecological Culture ◽  
The Relationship

The article discusses the issue of designing the landscape and architectural environment of eco-spaces for the purpose of eco-education and upbringing. Since the main solution to environmental problems is the education of ecological culture, the formation of a new type of ecological consciousness among the younger generation, the design of eco-sites is the most relevant solution in this area. After analyzing the existing eco-sites and eco-trails, we can draw certain conclusions and identify several factors that are necessary when designing landscape eco-spaces. The creation of an eco-platform on the territory of park zones will attract the attention of the population to the problems of environmental pollution, as well as the education of ecological culture and the popularization of ecological and educational activities among young people. Visitors to the site, aimed at eco-education, will plunge not just into the architectural and landscape area, but into a whole educational camp, where everyone can find a convenient way to get information. The modern, designed space will be able to promote the development of creative and research abilities of children during the summer and winter holidays. The complex should include such areas as: entrance, exhibition, administrative and office premises, recreation area, area of cultural events, master classes, lectures. For the perception of a holistic environment, it is necessary to preserve the unity of the composition and create a thematic planning structure of the eco-space. A prerequisite is that the development of the relationship between the premises and the multi-level space provides for the logical movement of visitors around the ecological site. People who are immersed in the process of observing nature will do this in a constant mode, studying the growth of plants, changes in the weather, and so on.

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