Comparatively, outsiders more emphasize on the types and modes of the landscape and they more experience it within their five senses (Forman, 1995). Traditionally speaking, when we talk about city landscapes we are more focused on the visual level, which equals to the representation that the city landscape offers, including lines, shapes, colors and other external forms. That is largely because visual experience gives the viewer the first-hand experience on an object most directly and straightforwardly (Lovelock, 1979). In this context, landscape is equal to the sheer city visual landscape. However, there is a number of other different ways experience the landscape dominated by the basic five senses. For instance, one can even experience the
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Grey is a color that stands just in the between of black and white, linking and blending in the most contradictory colors together. In terms of landscape, the concept of “grey space” can also be referred and it means to combine contradictory things organically together, which led to his idea of symbiosis in the 1980s (Baker, 1992). They are both of great implication in building public space for outsiders, and that is largely because outsiders as temporary tourists may lack of a holistic idea of the regions and space they are in. Therefore, when they go between a number of places within a certain region, they may feel shocked and lost since they are not culturally adjusted to it. Some of the elements will seem to be very mix-matched to them. Therefore, the introduction of grey space is thus a wonderful idea to comfort outsiders and gives them a natural interim in several parts of a landscape during their visit in a new place. For instance, if a European traveller visits a countryside temple in Japan, he may feel that the temple is rather isolated from the rest of the world and thus probably get lost. Thus, if the temple aims to attract more overseas visitors (outsiders), the planner can work on the surround environment on it, building some welcoming trees and man-made little rivers, etc. to make it more of a tangible experience for the outsiders who are not familiar with the local culture. Grey space emphasizes on the vagueness of boundary, the ambiguity of functionality as well as the duality of sensualisation (Newton, 1971). As a matter of fact, building a grey space has been a very common method to ease the alienation on emotions caused by that fact that modern architecture cuts city place in isolated pieces. Grey space originally means the interim space between architecture and its outer environment in order to integrate the inner and outer space (Jackson,
Grey is a color that stands just in the between of black and white, linking and blending in the most contradictory colors together. In terms of landscape, the concept of “grey space” can also be referred and it means to combine contradictory things organically together, which led to his idea of symbiosis in the 1980s (Baker, 1992). They are both of great implication in building public space for outsiders, and that is largely because outsiders as temporary tourists may lack of a holistic idea of the regions and space they are in. Therefore, when they go between a number of places within a certain region, they may feel shocked and lost since they are not culturally adjusted to it. Some of the elements will seem to be very mix-matched to them. Therefore, the introduction of grey space is thus a wonderful idea to comfort outsiders and gives them a natural interim in several parts of a landscape during their visit in a new place. For instance, if a European traveller visits a countryside temple in Japan, he may feel that the temple is rather isolated from the rest of the world and thus probably get lost. Thus, if the temple aims to attract more overseas visitors (outsiders), the planner can work on the surround environment on it, building some welcoming trees and man-made little rivers, etc. to make it more of a tangible experience for the outsiders who are not familiar with the local culture. Grey space emphasizes on the vagueness of boundary, the ambiguity of functionality as well as the duality of sensualisation (Newton, 1971). As a matter of fact, building a grey space has been a very common method to ease the alienation on emotions caused by that fact that modern architecture cuts city place in isolated pieces. Grey space originally means the interim space between architecture and its outer environment in order to integrate the inner and outer space (Jackson,