Investigating the Site Appropriately, Borrowing the Scenery Ingeniously

This paper analyses the phenomenon of similar landscape figure of villages in current days, rethinks the puzzlement in the construction of beautiful countryside. It also proposes the theories of site investigation and scenery borrowing are the core basis of rural landscape design, the countryside has the natural resources such as mountains, forests, rivers and so on. At the same time, the origin and cultural identity of the clans are spread from generation to generation. These resources give the designer a rare opportunity to dig, create and think. On this basis, the designer should also innovate and explore to represent the characteristics of the site with the new language and technology with contemporary and native rural landscape. Then, the article discusses the understanding of site investigation and the application of scenery borrowing in the process of practice, taking three villages—Zaoxi Village, Longwucha Village and Xiayang Village for examples.