As the global climate changes, as well as population growth and economic development, we inevitably face the effects of extreme weather events, the sharp decline in biodiversity and public health emergencies。
As a result, the importance of landscape landscaping has grown, and a great deal of positive efforts by landscape park designers have proved to bring economic, social and environmental benefits, such as mitigating the urban heat island effect, improving animal habitats, promoting human health and well-being and making cities more resilient。
We sum up the trends and challenges of the future of the 10 landscape gardens and hope that caring for the earth will be our consensus, united to heal the scarred home of the earth。
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Trend 1: green infrastructure in cities
Green infrastructure, as an interconnected green space network in cities, can better address current urban ecological problems. Facilities such as parks in cities, increased greening coverage, climate adaptation and ecological restoration, conservation of biodiversity and species habitats, etc. Are of great importance。
(chart source: mapping landscape design 100 classic plant configurations)
In our cities, one urban park after another has been built, which acts as green lungs and breathes life into the local ecosystem。
Hangzhou asian transport park (source: archdaily, photo: sfp building)
More new urban parks are based on the concept of zero carbon, such as the shenzhen zero carbon park, published in the aube obo design, which takes advantage of the site's rich terrain and good natural habitats and proposes six strategies for low-impact development (lid), low-impact development, low-carbon plant design, low-carbon process materials, low-carbon energy use, low-carbon science operations and sponge city design。
Shenzhen zero carbon park bird view (source: archdaily, photo: tal construction)
Trends 2: rural landscape-building in the new era, with high expectations
On 13 february 2023, the cpc central and state council issued its opinions on the priorities for the comprehensive advancement of rural renewal in the year 2023, for the first time proposing “accelerating the construction of a strong agricultural state” and making specific deployments for the construction of accessible and rural areas。
In response to the call for “new rural” construction, many people are beginning to think about rural-urban relations, and many are looking back at rural areas and looking forward to their construction. A number of landscape designers have been pouring into the countryside, a brand-new “back home” that has brought changes to the countryside。
Issues such as rural landscape-building, traditional village protection and rural habitat management are beginning to receive attention。
(source: rural landscape mapping)
The field complex is one of the most appropriate models of rural development in the current context。
Building a field complex requires, on the one hand, the integration of rural natural and cultural resources and the extraction of the value added of agro-industries, and, on the other hand, the development of rural industries in tandem with the integration of industry, tourism and leisure, and the transformation of agriculture from a single industrial structure to a multi-industry integration。
(source: rural landscape mapping)
Trends 3: urban wilderness
The third and second-modern language test in nanjing city, jiangsu province, 2023 incorporated parts of professor yu kongjin's " urban wilderness: another civilization " into the reading understandings。
The “urban wilderness” refers to the natural rather than man-dominated lands of cities that can be naturally transformed beyond human intervention, and whose owners are the land itself and the lives that live freely on it, which are precious natural resources and very important bird migrations and stops。
Excerpts from the test (source: public sign, `languages of high examination')
Urban wilderness is an important factor in ensuring the health and sustainability of urban ecosystems, providing indispensable ecosystem services to human society, such as the purification of air and water, the regulation of urban microclimate, the maintenance of indigenous biodiversity, etc., and helping to increase urban resilience and provide greater access to nature。
Red ribbon park (source: native design)
The well-known landscape firm aspect studios also launched the “rewilding perth” initiative to address the climate crisis in perth, australia. The design will introduce nature into the urban core, eco-rehabilitate wetlands and increase urban resilience through sustainable development。
Map of perth wildness (source: aspecs)
Trends 4: sponge cities
The concept of “spongy cities”, which originated in china, has now gained worldwide acceptance。
On 1 february 2023, the world health organization bulletin (bulletin of the world health organization) published sponge city for better humanity. The article noted that addressing related issues such as climate change, floods, sanitation and health required nature-based solutions. Urban designers across the globe are now working to build a healthier, safer and sustainable world by building green infrastructure such as sponge cities。
On 26 march 2023, the united states cnn published an article entitled " water as a companion to water in urban design in the face of frequent floods " confirming the concept of sponge cities。
(chart source: mapping landscape design 100 classic plant configurations)
Since the launch of the pilot in 2014, a number of cities in china have been implementing sponge city projects. In the future, the construction of sponge cities will continue and, according to national plans, 80 per cent of all cities will have green sponge elements by 2030。
(source: archdaily)
Trend 5: national parks and mountain water works
The state is currently undertaking a number of major landscape projects。
The first national park master plan was officially launched at the second national parks forum in 2023 for the period 2023-2030. Five national parks (the three rivers national park, the grand panda national park, the northeast panther national park, the hainan tropical rainforest national park and the wubushan national park) plan a total area of over 230,000 square kilometres。
It is expected that by 2035 we will have 49 national parks, one ninth of the country's total area, almost the largest national park system in the world. While protecting wildlife, the national parks also allow ordinary people to enjoy the beauty of nature。
The documentary, "our national park."
By the end of 2022, china's mountain water project had emerged from more than 150 declared projects around the world, becoming one of the first 10 united nations flagship eco-rehabilitation projects, providing china's wisdom and china's programme for the world's response to climate change and environmental degradation. The latest data from the ministry of natural resources showed that china's mountain water project had protected over 5 million hectares of land and had played an important role in improving the quality and stability of the region's ecosystems。
An increasingly beautiful china is waving at us。
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Trend 6: mountain water gardens is the eternal spiritual home of the chinese
China's classical garden has a high artistic level and a unique artistic style. It is one of the world's three main landscape systems, and it occupies an extremely important place in the history of the world's gardens。
Since ancient times, mountain water has been favored by chinese inkmen, whose culture, poetry, architecture, landscapes are everywhere。
(target source: tut gangnam gardens)
The “mountain garden” is an image of china's traditional landscaping, which in its broad sense is the essence of mountain water collection, the digging of lakes and mountains, the construction of the whole garden skeletons in mountain terrain, and the formation of a poetic gardening environment。
Modern mountain gardens, drawing on traditional landscape paradigms, engage in traditional and contemporary dialogue and seek a return from “physical space” to “human spirit”。
(text source: garden collection garden landscape design 7)
In the future, there are endless possibilities for mountain landscaping, and more landscape designers need to be involved to express their mountain views and bring to the world the unique chinese mountain landscaping。
(target source: new chinese park)
Trends 7: restorative, healing landscapes will become more popular
The benefits of nature to human health have long been demonstrated, and increased exposure to the natural environment can improve recovery from adverse states of mental fatigue, negative emotions, stress and associated diseases, and the need for landscapes has increased from mere green cover to the need for “restorative landscapes”。
(source: archdaily)
In 2023, the singapore national parks authority released the stereotyping guidelines for coNtemplative landscapes), which explores how landscapes can have a positive psychological impact on humans and suggests key design elements through case studies。
A good landscape design that restores both the natural environment and the human body and body。
Guidelines for meditating landscape design (source: singapore natio)No, no, no, no
Trend 8: brownland regeneration, turning toxic to oasis
In november 2023, a news release drew public attention to “brownlands”: many years ago, the shanghai luthor group took a large amount of land for construction in suzhou, building schools and neighbourhoods there, but recently found it to be a contaminated “poison”。
In the process of urban expansion, housing on contaminated industrial plots is not unique to the country. Brown land, scattered around almost every former industrial city, and many landfills that used to be far from urban areas were also used for construction. Soil pollution in brown lands tends to occur after years or even more, often late。
The soil of the palm land is not irresistible, and it can be decontaminated by changing the soil, planting specific plants, etc. Many of the brown lands have changed and become the scenery of beauty, thanks to clever design. Today, brownfield rehabilitation has become a frontier for urban ecological governance。
Milestone project for global brownland regeneration: northern duisburg landscape park (source: 100 degrees encyclopedia)
Spongeton park, a heavily contaminated municipal dump, has become an oasis for regulating rain floods and providing habitats for birds and other wildlife (source: earthen design)
Trends 9: future buildings need to be integrated with landscape design
Building design should not be isolated, but should consider the design of landscapes and lead people to nature, meet people in nature, and allow everyone in it to live with nature in a place where they are “unseen nature”。
(figure source: invisible nature: landscape design for sasakiha ii)
For example, a cultural building of recent interest — the central capital of the chinese state version — was designed to take into account ecological rehabilitation. The western and northern sides of the site were shaped by quarrying, which was designed to recover it in mountain shape, greening it naturally, creating drainage canals on both sides of the east and west, creating seasonal landscapes and water systems, as well as compound-style structures that were hidden in mountain gardens, showing a large pattern of china's ecological nature。
China national portfolio central general hall view of birds (source: thad qinghua university institute of architectural design, photo: nine mile architecture)
Trend 10: "wise + landscape" "technology + landscape" will be a new trend in the future of landscape design
Smart technology affects our lives and the development of landscape design. In recent years, scholars in landscape parks and forestry have begun to explore the possibility of integrating digital technologies with industry. Digitalization technologies are becoming more mature in landscape parks, such as data acquisition, landscape process simulation and visualization, parameterization design, etc。
Combining the needs of the new age, condensing the cultural content of the new era and the tools of new technologies, and integrating the intellectual scenes into the new and interesting landscapes of interactive experiences, is the “wiss landscape”。
There's a "wise cooling lane" in the rega wisdom park in chongqing city, with a smart spray system on both sides, which automatically starts to spray cooling when the external temperature reaches the set value and the infrared sense reaches the pedestrian
In addition, machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies are becoming drivers of innovation in landscape garden design. The rational application of artificial intelligence technologies, the reduction of research and design costs and the promotion of a shift in thinking and approach are inevitable challenges and opportunities for the current and future development of landscape parks。
Image produced by ai “wetland and the new york skyline” (source: world landscape design network wla)
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