Cultural colourscape : the study of colour as a symbolic element in landscape architecture
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Abstract
This thesis suggests colour plays a critical role in landscape architecture and should be used in more varieties of ways in the discipline.Colour decisions should be made on a rational basis based on the nature of colour and the given context.They should facilitate a clear dialogue with its context.The context should determine the choices of colour application in landscape architecture is an important topic for the profession to explore and discover.Colour plays a critical role in landscape architecture and should be used in a greater variety of ways in the discipline.Colour can enhance the functional aspect of a landscape design and enrich the artistic value of outdoor space.It can create a framework for interpretation, which has the opportunity to promote local distinctiveness in the age of globalizafion.Colour usages in a constructed landscape can also achieve instructional/ educational purposes.It can help landscape architects to communicate design intentions in an effective manner.In short, it can expand the possibility of a constructed landscape.Colour decisions need to be made on a logical basis based on the nature of colour and the given context.They should facilitate a clear dialogue with its context.A basic understanding of the visual nature of colour, colour theory and the non-physiological factors affecting colour perception are essential for landscape architects to have greater control of the final product.Issues such as the physical, environmental, social, economical, political and cultural context are important for landscape architects in developing a colour palette that is sensitive to the given site.The context should determine the choices of colour application, while colour should have a logical relationship with the environment.It is therefore the intention of this thesis to study the abiotic design elements in the constructed landscape, with particular attention being drawn to the relationship between colour and context.The role of colour in landscape architecture will be explored in greater detail in the first chapter.Some of the fundamental issues associated with colour will be studied in Chapter Two.Certain aspects of colour will, however, not be discussed in this thesis; for example, colour therapy, the electromagnetic spectrum, colour combinations for gardening and colour in the natural landscape and in the biotic elements of landscape architecture.In Chapter Three, the thesis will examine the different aspects in the context that can be determinants in making colour decisions, followed by a case study to demonstrate how some of these colour and contextual factors play arole in the colour scheme within a culture.Projects of strong colour content by artists, architects and landscape architects are surveyed in Chapter Five.These demonstrate the impact of colour in a designed environment and the inter-relationship between colour and context.The information generated from the preceding chapters will then provide the basis for generating guidelines for making colour decisions that are more sensitive their context.It is the aim of this thesis to demonstrate that the application of colour in landscape architecture should be seen beyond the realm of intuition, or even a matter of personal taste.Colour design is an art and a science that requires an holistic approach.Careful analysis of the context and an understanding of the nature of colour are important in establishing a rational base for colour application.Chapter One Colour and l-,andscape ArchÍtecture
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.019 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".