Aesthetics of Factory Landscape Common with Rock Arrangement of Japanese Garden

A Comparative Study of Yokkaichi Complex and Garden Making Treatise

Abstract

The factory landscape in which horizontal elements and vertical elements coexist may have aesthetic properties common to the stone design of Japanese gardens. The objective of this research is to demonstrate this hypothesis through comparing the factory landscape of the Yokkaichi industrial complex and the stone figure drawing in a garden making treatise. Quantitative analysis of the proportion of the length and the width of the component elements showed that horizontal elements and vertical elements were dominant on both. Therefore, comparison between horizontal and vertical elements common to the stone arrangement was also recognized in the factory landscape of Yokkaichi complex.