Comparison of Chinese Garden Design Philosophy and the Biophilic Design Characteristics in a Case of Liuyuan

With the urban environment and public health becoming the focus of attention, the biophilic design has become an inevitable trend in the development of landscape design, which has positive significance for solving urbanization problems. However, researches on biophilic design have been popular in the field of architecture or interior design but there is a lock of studies in the field of landscape architecture. The purpose of this study were, therefore, to analyze the common characteristics of biophilic design and the garden design philosophy of Chinese traditional gardens, and to identify the biophilic design characteristics of Chinese traditional gardens. A total of 23 studies related to biophilic design and Chinese garden design philosophy were used for content analysis by Nvivo. We also analysed the Chinese traditional garden, Liuyuan(留园), as the case study to identify the characteristics of the biological design. As the results, the biophilic design characteristics are directly or indirectly embodied in the garden design philosophy of Chinese traditional garden. In addition, Chinese traditional garden provides people with a mysterious psychological experience through a sense of enclose, which has a common feature with the sense of mystery of biophilic design characteristic. We expect that this study would help to expand the biophilic design from the perspective of the landscape field and provides inspiration for the biophilic design of traditional gardens in the future.