An Analytical study about principles of landscaping and haw it enhances the spatial qualities of the built environment

Abstract

There is an inherent need in man to form an emotional relationship with his environment and there by become part of it. Primitive man whose tie with the nature of was stronger than modem man perceived every thing as being alive. He perceived the environment as a whole with himself as an integral part of it. The life giving water, the protective mountain range the wind that blew across the land, all these were seen as live things. With these he formed an intuitive relation ship, which brought him in to the eternal order of nature. He arranged the element around him fulfil his needs. When man does not consciously interface an environment, we call it nature. When it is being observed by man we call it the landscape. The landscape provides the 'ground' for man's being in the world. When man deliberately arranges the elements of land to create to place for him, it become built environment. However, there is an original impulse in man to form a meaningful relationship with nature and become a part of it. This extends beyond the physical into the emotional psychic aspects of existence. Thus he arranges the elements of his land to represents a deeper meaning beyond the physical.now landscaping becomes and art. Landscape design is an ancient art. Water bodies, greeneries, and built environment sky and wind-the natural elements around us was the point of take off gradually be began to read more into these natural elements which he perceived as alive and they became symbolic of god a superior force, when civilized man lost the intuitive relation ship with nature he regarded this superior force as the other and developed a philosophical frame work, through which he could into scheme of things.