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Landscape design research is important for cultivating spatial intelligence in landscape architecture. This chapter explores GIS as a tool for landscape design research—investigating landscape designs to understand them as architectonic compositions (architectonic plan analysis). Landscape architectonic compositions and their representations embody a great wealth of design knowledge as objects of our material culture and reflect the treatment of the ground, space, image and program into a characteristic coherence. By exploring landscape architectonic compositions with GIS we can acquire design knowledge that can be used in the creation/refinement of a new design. This chapter elaborates on GIS-based visibility analysis of landscape architectonic compositions and reveals the perceived spatial potential as a basis for performance and reception. Two examples of landscape design research showcase that GIS-based isovists and viewsheds have the potential of measuring visual phenomena which are often subject of intuitive and experimental design.
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Nijhuis, S. (2014). GIS-based Landscape Design Research: Exploring Aspects of Visibility in Landscape Architectonic Compositions. In: Lee, D., Dias, E., Scholten, H. (eds) Geodesign by Integrating Design and Geospatial Sciences. GeoJournal Library(), vol 111. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08299-8_13
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