1. Project Statement In a harsh climate and high density community, solar energy and rain water are harvested for a balcony garden and indoor living wall to transform two apartments into productive ecosystems that provide fresh fruits and vegetables for the kitchen, mediate temperatures in the living environment, and offer a refreshing urban living experience. These green interventions demonstrate how an ecological approach to fine scale urban design can reduce a home’s carbon footprint. ...

IncludingthestoryonChineselandscapearchitectKongjianYu,"TheArtofSurvival."

thewaterundergroundisdroppingonemetereveryyear.Thecityisbuiltonahuman-controlledsystemofpipesanddrainage,roadsandinfrastructure.Wewastetoomuchtime,water,andenergypumpingwater."

as China has become more urbanized and “civilized,” the vernacular landscape has been gradually deprived of its productivity,

ItisacallforthereturntotheGoodEarthandacallfortherescueofthewealth-corruptedsocietythathasbeenalienatedfromtheland.

The conventional approach to economic centered urban development planning, failed to meet the challenges of swift urbanization and sustainability issues in China

The landscape design education thought is the continuation of traditional Chinese landscape architecture education, it is just from the aesthetic and visual understanding of the associated with the current actual significance.

campus is an ambitions attempt to do something genuinely novel in campus design in China—to build a bridge across a widening gap in the fabric of Chinese society.

hehasstatedthatpeopleshouldnotonlyappreciatelandscapearchitecturefromonlyanaestheticgardeningpointofviewbutalsointegrateitinourlivingroutineandembraceitinourminds.

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