A Research on the Space Design and the Cultural Representation of Suzhou Garden, China

本研究旨在从三个角度揭示苏州中国传统园林的空间特质：与园林亭台空间设计的关系、文艺表现的语意和苏州城市的发展。研究团队包括三个细分：园林窗框景观的量化分析、亭台空间形态与池塘水边设计的关系分析、亭台碑表现的分类分析。每一个细分都得到了观察：1)园亭与其周围的景观设计有很强的联系，2)这种关系与传统的亭名不同，3)清初苏州运河发展时期的池边设计词汇。

This research aims at revealing the spatial qualities of traditional gardens in Suzhou, China, from three viewpoints; the relationship with the spatial design of garden pavilions, the semantics by literary representation, and the urban development of the city of Suzhou.The research team includes three subdivisions; the quantitative analysis of the window-framed view of the garden, the analysis of the relationship between the pavilion's spatial form and the water-edge design of the pond, and the classifying analysis of the representation of the tablet on pavilions. Each subdivision get the observations; 1) there is a strong relationship between the garden pavilion and the design of the landscape around it, 2) those relationship are to be categorized in the different way from the traditional naming of pavilion, and 3) those pond-edge design vocabulary at the period of the canal development of Suzhou city inearly Quing dinasty.