A Study on the Characteristics of Road Landscape for 3D Design Developing Process

Abstract

Due to Asia’s economic growth and industrialization, there has being a growing interest in road landscapes recently. In the meanwhile, aesthetic aspects in road design are becoming more and more important as 3D design technology advancing. With a view to the above, designers must consider both the structural engineering and the aspect of aesthetics when conceiving new urban roads blueprint. Much more in-depth studies are expected to focus on the aesthetics of roads by utilizing 3D design technology. In light of this, this study was centred on the landscape preferences of road in modern cities from the perspective of building height and planting type alongside. The main results of the study were summarized as follows: The images of H:W=1:3 and H:W=1:1 were more highly preferred than the rest seven images on the grounded that the lower buildings seemed to have better correspondence with the surroundings. And the image of planting with 7.5 meter-interval received the highest evaluation for visual preference on account that this interval provides road landscape with a visual image of stability. In conclusion, this study results illustrated that ratio of building height to road width and the planting interval on footpath were the crucial elements in landscape design. Furthermore, this study also make efforts to present a methodology for 3D design develoement.