Abstract
The importance of “places” has been recognized in the field of environmental design, but the methods to plan and design, or to analyze the “places” have not been established in the field of landscape design. Therefore in this paper, it is aimed that the method to schematize the “places” be proposed and be applied to the landscape design precedence of the natural burial ground (NBG) in the U.K. First, the idea of “place” is made clear based on the texts by Y. F. Tuan and E. Relph. Second, the method to schematize “places” is proposed based on the idea of “place memory”, which was originally proposed by E.S.Casey. According to this idea, memory is sustained mainly by “place”, which is then sustained by “landscape” that includes “horizons”, “pathways”, and “things”. Third, the proposed method is applied for the analysis of the NBG precedence. And fourth, the validity of the method is evaluated by how well the resulting scheme can explain the characteristics of the project. The resulting scheme successfully explained the main characteristics of the projects, and the method proved acceptable. It is also found that in analyzing “places”, to clarify the meaning of the landscape elements that may be given not by the physical design but by the program is important.
