A study on design types and design principles of historical earth design in waterfront

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to find design types and principles as to earth design in historical waterfront.
By analyzing characteristics of these design types, earth design in waterfront controling wateredge's form could be stood as design of sophistcating or emphasizing spatial potential that natural wateredges have.
And all design types we have found can be ordered by three axes of basical spatial characteristics in view of design.