Difference from Organic Flow Landscapes: Curves Come from Water, Not Pens

A landscape whose shape is determined by natural processes. The curves of organic flowing landscapes are designed: gradual changes in path width, tear-shaped diversion islands, free-form pond shorelines, every bend is for human experience. The curves of ecological landscapes are the result of water flow, sedimentation, and plant competition: channels erode on the outside of bends and deposit sandbars on the inside, and vegetation boundaries are drawn by light and humidity. Both are curved, but one is drawn, the other grown. Avoid: making ponds with designed free curves, making shorelines uniformly graceful, using paving and edgings to define plant boundaries, making terrain undulations look sculpted.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一處形狀由自然過程決定的地景。有機流線景觀的曲線是設計出來的:路寬的漸變、眼淚狀的分流島、自由形的水池岸線,每個彎都是為了人的體驗;生態景觀的曲線是水流、沉積與植物競爭的結果:水道在彎道外側沖刷、內側堆積成沙洲,植群的邊界是光照與濕度畫出來的。兩者都彎,但一個是畫的,一個是長的。避免:把水池做成設計感的自由曲線、讓岸線的曲率均勻優美、用鋪面與收邊界定植栽的邊界、讓地形的起伏看起來是塑形出來的。