Definition: Designing a Process That Grows Itself

A recently completed ecological landscape. It looks incomplete: sparse planting, large spacing between plants, ground cover not yet fully established, and exposed soil covered with straw mats. The planted seedlings are very small, because the design goal is not the appearance on the day of completion, but how it will grow naturally in five or ten years. An untidy area next to it is deliberately left untouched. Avoid: depicting a full, mature green landscape upon completion, using large-specimen transplanted trees to make the site immediately complete, covering the entire ground with neat ground cover, making the scene look like a newly completed sample park.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一處剛完工不久的生態景觀。它看起來不完整:植栽稀疏、株距很大、地被還沒覆滿、土壤裸露的地方鋪著稻草蓆;種下去的苗木都很小,因為設計的目標不是完工那天的畫面,而是五年、十年後自己長成的樣子。旁邊有一塊未整理的區域被刻意留下。避免:畫成完工即成熟的滿版綠意、使用大規格移植樹讓現場立刻完整、把地面全部鋪滿整齊的地被、讓畫面看起來像剛完工的樣品公園。