Landscape Material: Only The Native Is The World.

Speaking of the landscape design of the luxury house, what we used to pursue was "foreign monks recite sutras". Speaking of the design team and landscape greening, if not the design led by the team of foreign designers, if not the precious tree species from five continents, it seems that "the grade is not enough". Nowadays, as the vision of developers and consumers becomes wider and wider, people are more and more aware that only the local is the world.

In the past few years, as soon as you enter the high-end residential buildings, you can see almost all European-style Palace gardens, introducing a precious tree species, which costs hundreds of thousands of yuan. Nowadays, many buildings pay attention to the local landscape garden design. Zhao Honghong said, "Now, even when emphasizing foreign customs, most of them are Southeast Asian style gardens with similar climate and vegetation. In fact, some luxury houses are greened with the most common banana and other tree species in our locality. The cost is not high, but they are very distinctive. The introduction of plants with unsuitable local climate will greatly increase the cost of maintenance. Even if people living in luxury houses may not care much about the money, trees are prone to pests and diseases, affecting the landscape.

In the past few years, I strongly put forward the concept of "landscape localization" to developers, so that you might as well plant some wild flowers and weeds beside precious trees. How tall a dog's tail grass is next to the parliamentary building in France, which is not only easy to maintain, but also tastes good. At that time, developers laughed at it and said, "Will such a luxury house be bought?" However, in recent years, I feel that the concept of ecological landscape has changed significantly. Like SOHO Galaxy made by world famous architect Zaha, there are some delicate flowers and plants in the flower bed, but the main characters are reeds and dog tail grass.

_Hansenberg International Design Group has designed many residential landscape projects locally, and Liu Jian'an, Director of Landscape Design Center, also agrees with the view of localization of landscape design. "To adapt to local conditions and advocate nature is a new trend in landscape design. In order to create a special environment, I do not object to introducing some foreign species locally, but local plants should account for about 90% of the total project, while exotic plants are just ornaments."

Landscape is not to be seen, but to be participated in.

"In the past few years, when we saw luxury housing projects, most of the landscape was fountains, sculptures, flower beds, or large areas of artificial waterscape. This kind of landscape is ornamental, which not only costs a lot of maintenance, but also makes it difficult for residents to participate in it." Zhao Honghong said, "In recent years, I have been impressed by the high participation of landscape architecture. Trees and grasslands allow people to walk in them; in addition to natural lakes, artificial waterscapes are now more common in streams, so that children are more likely to participate in them and not prone to safety problems; fountains are not surrounded by highlands as in the past, but near the main entrance, so that children can play in them.

Liu Jianan said that many new projects in the lawn and rockery, will no longer hang a brand to refuse people thousands of miles away, but can participate in it. Open lawn design creates an open communication space for owners to rest, parents and children gathering, and pets to play. "From many details, we can see that designers and developers are paying more and more attention to participatory, such as one by the water side. A small hydrophilic platform, a small rocking chair under a big tree..."

Expert Perspective

Landscape design is a very cost-effective investment

For developers, landscape design is a very cost-effective investment. The cost of landscape design in general grade is 100 yuan/square metre. 500 yuan/square metre has already made the landscape exquisite, which enables consumers to recognize a real estate from the first impression. But for the construction or decoration itself, increasing the cost of 400 yuan per square metre may not produce much effect. Developers should pay more attention to the role of landscape design in the future.

Landscape design complements architectural design

Landscape design plays a very complementary role in architectural design. Architectural design is regulated by red lines and provisions, while landscape design is relatively free. Good landscape design can make up for the defects that architectural design has to appear. For example, basement or semi-basement designs, which are very popular nowadays, are often equipped with skylights. If they are concealed by plants, they not only look green, but also do not feel abrupt.