A Study on Design Evaluation of Landscaping Project in Lakeside District

Abstract

The purpose of this reseach concerning landscapes created by lasndscaping project, is to analyze how they are acceped by the local people and the party concerned, and try to aquire ideal style of landscaping project and a guide for its design.
We choose lakeside district of ‘Nisinoko’ in the suburbs of Ohmi Hachiman city, Shiga prefecture as a reseach area. We took pictures of bridges, shores and roads that were the objects of landscaping project beforehand, and showed them to farmers in this region, citizens in the city and the local government officials in charge, then we asked them the images of these pictures. By this image examination, we evaluate each landscaping project.
As a result, effective projects in the lakeside district were wooden bridges, curving of roads, planting on shores and so on. On the other hand, the less effective or evil ones were piled up stones for shores, shores made of logs and uniform planting design, etc.
In addition, it was found that the evaluations of the log shores greatly differ among the citizens in the city, government officials in charge and the people in the area.