ANALYZING THE CRITERIA OF PLANTING DESIGN FOR VISUAL LANDSCAPE QUALITY IN CAMPUS

Authors

  • Norizan Mt Akhir Department of Built Environment Studies & Technology Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Surveying UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA, PERAK BRANCH, MALAYSIA
  • Siti Rasidah Md Sakip Department of Built Environment Studies & Technology Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Surveying UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA, PERAK BRANCH, MALAYSIA
  • Mohamed Yusoff Abbas Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Surveying UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA, SHAH ALAM, MALAYSIA
  • Noriah Othman Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Surveying UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA, SHAH ALAM, MALAYSIA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21837/pm.v19i16.950

Keywords:

Planting composition, planting design, criteria, campus, landscape preferences, well-being

Abstract

Planting design is the art of composing plants to create a campus landscape design. The composition may influence the students’ preferences owned by the criteria of planting. This study aims to identify the planting design criteria towards enhancing visual landscape quality in campus environment. The photograph-based method used to collect the landscape planting images and compose it into a questionnaire. This photo-questionnaire design is mostly practiced by academicians in this research field. The question uses five Likertscale format to analyse the preference rating. The descriptive and correlation analysis are used to quantify the mean results and the relationship between the criteria. The finding represents the most influencing factor in landscape planting preference is arrangement with a score 4.34 while texture is less considered with 3.71 rating score. Most of the attributes were significant except for attributes planting with variety of forms, texture intensity and different species arrangement. As a result, this research finding is able to guide designers to sensibly setting the planting design, particularly in the campus environment.

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Published

2021-07-27

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Mt Akhir, N., Md Sakip, S. R., Abbas, M. Y., & Othman, N. (2021). ANALYZING THE CRITERIA OF PLANTING DESIGN FOR VISUAL LANDSCAPE QUALITY IN CAMPUS. PLANNING MALAYSIA, 19(16). https://doi.org/10.21837/pm.v19i16.950

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Vol. 19 (2021): PLANNING MALAYSIA JOURNAL : Volume 19, Issue 2, 2021

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