Natural Sites and Places

Natural places are wholly dependent on their setting and in their vegetation. The whole setting is dependent on the topography of a place, the surface relief and its extension into adjoining space. Man-made places can be related to natural places through visualising the understanding and relationships with nature, complementing the existing natural setting, and symbolising and translating this understanding into physical form. As man is centred in the world, the sense of ‘space’ is determined by his own location and orientation. The immediate environment is sensed and experienced from one's own perspective as existential space. The earth's surface comprises many landscapes that have evolved over time, due to geological, climatic or natural forces. Such landscapes have surfaces whose patterns change throughout the diurnal seasons and daily weathers. As a result, scenes and scenery vary, resulting in different compositions of shapes, forms, colours and textures.