Abstract
Using an ongoing design project—China′s Meishan Culture Park in Hunan Province—as a case study, this paper examines a four-dimensional design approach that incorporates time features into conventional three-dimensional space design. Time features are incorporated through the use of various design elements that constantly change through time. Thus, both the first and final images of the landscape are unpredictable, and the landscape is part of a dynamic process. The key feature of such a design is the transformation of a static landscape into a dynamic one that is authentic, historic and diachronic.
