Computer-Aided Design Approaches for Landscape Designing: A Survey

Abstract

In modern times, land is considered an extremely important commodity and much effort goes into the garden designing and landscaping process by the landscape architects. the process of landscape architects demonstrating the garden design to a client has been a tedious task. This is primarily due to the lack of domain knowledge, as a client would have to understand and visualize the arrangements of a garden and this may also be a haphazard process of landscape architects trying to express the idea using an existing software solutions which delivers a two dimensional view of the garden design. Thus, all of these issues are of utmost importance to be addressed since the process is very time consuming and expensive. This paper analyses numerous approaches to landscape designing CAD designing tools and critically evaluating research carried out on 2D and 3D based CAD designing tools. for the purpose of this study, few interior designing tools/approaches also have been critically evaluated. Various logical considerations are also explored and comments have been presented.