Iguchi Miho, Shen Yue, Saito Yohei, Yamamoto Satoshi
Journal of the Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture, 72(5) 611-616, Mar, 2009 Peer-reviewed
Recent years, tree planting of construction is diversified. And the atriums are no exception to this case. This study is aimed at clarifying the role and the state of the plants which a user expects the atrium to provide. The method is the evaluation and the analysis of the photograph, taken during both daytime and nighttime, which has the scene created by the photo montage method. Consequently, it became clear that trees are filling the main role as an artificial feeling reliever and a provider of comfort, while it makes less contribution to this role in the night. It also showed that the user prefers the trees with high permeability and the particular forms of planting. Moreover, the difference in the recognition to planting is found among the users with different attributes.