Applying Systems Thinking to Landscape Monoliths

With the development of urban economy and the continuous innovation of urban space, the landscape industry is developing rapidly. For a time, the landscape boulders flourished, providing our life with a living environment rich in cultural connotation and interest. According to the main idea of "harmony between man and nature" in traditional Chinese culture, the principle of harmonious coexistence of man, environment and stone sculpture has become the design concept of the landscape boulders.

Many landscape boulders designs violate this design concept, ignoring environmental factors, regional characteristics and local folk culture and failing to integrate into the environment. landscape boulders not only fail to beautify the city, but become visual garbage that cannot be erased . Furthermore, many customers blindly require large volume, good materials, and style to be high-grade in the design of landscape boulders. Such blind construction of landscape boulders is a great waste of social resources. The earth's resources are limited. How to pay a small price and consume less resources while satisfying the aesthetic needs of human beings; how to make reasonable use and allocation of resources and improve efficiency are the problems that must be solved in the road of harmonious design.
The design of landscape boulders is a systematic engineering activity from environmental investigation and design conception in the early stage to mid-stage production and post-installation. The preliminary inspection has a direct impact on the design concept, and the material selection and installation feasibility must be considered in the design process. Therefore, we are required to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the entire engineering activity before design, make overall arrangements, manage, organize, and plan this project in a planned and purposeful manner, instead of relying on experience to design traditionally. Therefore, system-based thinking is the basis for comprehensive analysis and overall planning.