A Form Creating Method in Landscape Design Education: Inspiration from Nature

It is important how novice designers can produce shapes in the design-oriented parts where creativity and form creation is prior. Designers can abstract the t ideas in their minds by taking advantage of the forms, metrics, and relationships that exist in nature. For this reason, how designers can transform their ideas to forms has been analyzed by experienced designers in this research. The form of visual data obtained from the nature is obtained by the abstraction of the visual data and the addition of the designer's own style instead of using the imitation of the individual. The shape of nature in the result of abstraction; there is a new meaning and form again. For this reason, in the study, the effect of creating form and how to generate form in nature inspiration process presented in two stages: In the first step, each unit forming the visual of the nature and the side-by-side relations of these units were examined and their formal characteristics were evaluated and made abstraction. In the second stage, the transformations of the lines obtained as a result of abstraction are provided. At the end of the study, the formations which are formed in the nature are analyzed in terms of measure and direction for the system definition, and the understanding of the system existing in the nature is transferred to the formal fiction of the design and it is exemplified how it is reflected in a landscape project. Thus, it is possible that novice designers can observe, analyze and synthesize natural samples in this way. Being able to do this well facilitates the process of form creation and improves the designers' ability to refer to the environment as a reference.