(1) Definition of narrative
Narrative is storytelling, suggesting a way of acquiring knowledge through the serendipity of actions and experiences. Narrative is both story and telling, both what is told and how it is told, both the result and the process.
The genre of literary narrative has developed from ancient myths and legends, epics, and dramas to today's novels, and from structuralist narratology to post-structuralist narratology.
The scope of narrative has also extended from literature to painting, film, drama, sculpture, dance, architecture and other artistic fields, and the medium of narrative is not only limited to language and words, but also can be non-verbal forms such as pictures, sounds, movements, and spaces.
There is also a narrative component in the landscape: the designer establishes a new type of structural relationship through the rational organization of the landscape and various environmental elements around it to create a public space, and conveys a certain humanistic meaning, commonly known as storytelling.
(2) Characteristics of narrative design
Focus on the relationship between things
Emphasizing the logical relationship between scenes to form a clear sense of scene and place is the space that carries memory fragments, and is a living environment that has an impact on our material, spiritual, physical and even psychological aspects.
Fifth Ring Corridor Bridge丨Beijing Winter Olympics Landscape Bridge Design
Focus on timing
Narrative design is a dynamic design process, and the presentation of design works is often a diachronic process. The meaning of space and the spirit of place are not something that designers can virtualize, but are generated through the interaction between users and the landscape through life experience, which is an "unfinished" and infinite process.
Swivel chair in the Place Jeanne d'Arc
Focus on place and humanity
Narrative design cannot exist in isolation from the place, it tells a story that takes place on the basis of a specific place. Narrative design respects the designer's personality and respects the user's individual experience.
Idyllic Disney Grass Theme Children's Park
and (3) the significance of narrative design
Space is emotional and often associated with fragments of everyday life. Each scene has a story. This is closely related to a series of themes such as the history, tradition, culture, and ethnicity of the city, which give the urban space a richer meaning.
The process of people's emotional experience is integrated into the landscape through the shaping of historical culture, regional culture, and traditional life content in the landscape elements. It emphasizes evoking people's psychological responses in a four-dimensional space. Modern landscape is not only a space for people to relieve physical and mental fatigue and mental pressure, but also an important spatial form for people's hearts to meet and communicate emotionally.
and (4) strategies for narrative design of modern landscapes
Symbiosis with the elements of nature – let nature say something
The introduction of natural elements will not only bring the experiencer a vitality, an emotion, and a sense of place, but also guide the user to actively participate in the activities together with other elements.
water
Water is a natural landscape with sound, movement, multiple shapes and expressions, the source of life, and the soul of nature. Not only can water serve as a spatial cue, it can also serve as a climax of a scene.
Shanghai丨Hongqiao Tiandi South District
Light
To design space is to design light, and it is the unpredictable movement of light and shadow that allows people to perceive a variety of different psychology and emotions such as solemnity, mystery, lightness, fantasy, etc.
The changes of light and shadow not only outline the shape and changes of time and space, but also strengthen the correlation and hierarchy of internal and external space.
Permanent art installation in Yalerup, Denmark
Through the form, color, brightness and other factors of light, it has a resonance, stimulation and inspiration for people's psychology, so as to reflect the deeper connotation of the use of light. The specific techniques of design include shading, filtering, concentrating, reflecting, transmitting, leaking, refractive and so on.
Beijing丨The "bubble" in the old city
sound
There are many sounds in nature, whether it is the rustle of leaves or the sound of frogs, which seem to tell the mysterious story of the earth. Introducing natural sounds into a landscape space can enhance the appeal of a place. Design the content of listening, create a place to listen, evoke people's beautiful and special memories, and brew emotions and atmospheres unique to the space and place.
"Adding water" in a garden in Japan
Due to the accidental nature of sound, when we perceive regular sounds, we must associate them with specific moments and places, which forms the "memory of sound". Our "memories of sounds" are reduced to our "memories of life", thus evoking the beauty of the familiar and intimate situations of urban life.
European predators at Brighton Docks, UK
Establish spatial order – a space for storytelling
Spatial orderliness is mainly reflected in the following aspects: spatial theme, spatial pattern and sequence, and spatial hierarchy.
The spatial hierarchy can be divided into three levels in narrative design: macro, which is the relationship with the whole site (context); Meso-landscape contextualized space; Micro – landscape elements. Landscape elements are used to combine and create landscape spaces to convey the context of the site.
Beijing丨Forbidden City
Interaction with the subject – open-ended ending
Different people will have different understandings of the same landscape pair, and designers should pay attention to this ambiguous and ambiguous characteristic. In fact, people prefer the landscape of the open-ended ending, so that they can supplement the completion and form a unique understanding.
Guizhou丨Zhongguancun Environmental Theme Children's Park
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Reference丨"On the Narrative Design of Landscape_Meng Linghui"
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