A Study on the Aesthetic Consciousness of Roads in Door Frame Landscape in Traditional Chinese Gardens

Abstract

Door Frame Landscape is a representative design technique of traditional Chinese gardens, which allows people to view the neighboring space through a doorway in the wall of the courtyard. The road serves as an element to guide the viewer to the adjacent space. Door frames are used to frame the landscape around the road, creating a Door Frame Landscape. This Door Frame Landscape style is widely favored, but the reason for this preference is still unclear. This has led to mere imitation of the style in the garden. Of course, the preference for Door Frame Landscape is also influenced by other fields such as politics, economics, and culture. This essay pursues the study of the aesthetic consciousness of road in the Door Frame Landscape from a scientific point of view, using evolutionary aesthetics. First, the paper summarizes the form of roads in the Door Frame Landscape into four categories. Secondly, evolutionary aesthetics theory suggests that people's good feelings towards the environment come from a sense of security and a desire to explore. Based on this theory, this study analyzes the aesthetic structure of the road in the Doorf Frame Landscape and proposes a good feeling vacation theory based on the road form. Finally, the paper experiments on the preferred of road form and concludes that viewers have the highest preferred of multidirectional curved roads. Based on evolutionary aesthetics, this study analyzes the aesthetic consciousness of roads in the Door Frame Landscape.