With the acceleration of urbanization, many new squares have been built in many cities, providing people with places for leisure and gathering, and putting forward higher requirements for square landscape design. So, what aspects should be paid attention to in the square landscape design to make full use of various favorable conditions and design a square with unique style to meet the needs of citizens? The following points are summarized:
1. Square landscape design should highlight local characteristics
Fully explore the local historical and cultural characteristics, adopt the architectural techniques and materials rich in local characteristics, try to design buildings that can highlight local characteristics, and enhance the cultural cohesion and attraction of the city through square landscape design.
2. Place landscape design should pay attention to human experience
In the final analysis, the square is built for people, so the landscape design must meet people's psychological and physiological needs, making the square a place for communication between people. For example, some functional landscape designs: chairs, steps, tree arrays and landscape sketches should be able to fully meet the physiological needs of people. In addition, you can also design a hydrophilic square, which can make people closer to each other and fully enjoy the psychological pleasure. The square landscape design should also take into account the needs of citizens of different cultural levels, occupations and ages for square space, so that people can learn, rest and communicate happily on the square.
3. The square landscape design should give consideration to social, ecological and economic benefits
According to different types, each square has its leading function. When designing the square landscape, we need to consider the nature of the square (such as leisure square, cultural square, memorial square, etc.), pay attention to the leisure, theme, and culture of the square, comprehensively use the square space, develop towards diversity, derivation, and comprehensiveness, fully meet the multiple needs of society, economy, and ecology, and become the life center of citizens.
4. Attention should be paid to the systematicness and integrity of square landscape design
The square landscape design should not only meet the functional integrity, but also take into account the cultural connotation of the city, urban planning and the surrounding environment, so as to form a unified urban system. Many urban squares in China, such as Shanghai People's Square, Dalian Xinghai Square and Nanjing Drum Tower Square, have become urban landmarks.