Difference from Contemporary Urban Landscapes: Habitat is More Than Resilience

A landscape designed for living organisms rather than for humans. Contemporary urban landscapes deal with urban resilience and residual spaces: floodable parks, rain garden sections, daylighting of culverts, and landfill regeneration, where the users are always humans. Ecological landscapes serve the voiceless—a pile of dead branches here is for beetles, that gentle slope is for amphibians to come ashore, and this patch of grass is left unmown for insects to overwinter. Human movement is restricted to a small portion. Avoid: making all areas accessible to people, letting human comfort dictate all design, neglecting the needs of non-human users, reducing ecology to mere explanatory signs.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一處以生物為對象而非以人為對象的景觀。當代都市景觀處理的是城市的韌性與剩餘空間:可淹沒的公園、雨庭的剖面、明渠化、掩埋場再生,使用者始終是人;生態景觀的服務對象包含不會說話的那一群——這裡留一堆枯枝是為了甲蟲、那道緩坡是為了讓兩棲類上岸、這片草不修剪是為了讓昆蟲過冬。人的動線被限制在一小部分。避免:把所有區域都做成人可以進入的空間、用人的舒適度決定所有設計、忽略非人類使用者的需求、把生態做成解說牌上的說法。