An Experimental Study on the Structure of Garden Landscape Evaluation

Abstract

This visual-psychological experimental study was done by means of the sheet for evaluation which consisted of 30 pairs of antonym adjectives. The subjects were 30 university students and they evaluated 35 color slides which were made up of 10 famaous Japanese gardens, and each of 5 gardens in Britain, Italy, Spain, China and France (Fig. 1).
In conclusion four factors were found in the evaluation of garden landscape:(1) emotional evaluation of amenity, (2) feeling of enclosure, (3) naturalness, and (4) feeling of gayness-desolateness.