Using 3D visualization software is already common practice in the process of landscape visualization (BISHOP, 2005). The ability to walk around or fly through virtual landscape makes it easy to evaluate the design itself and the way the design fits with the existing parts of the landscape. The whole design or parts of it can be adjusted to see how alternative landscape designs look like. Plantings, trees and shrubs, are the main materials to shape space in the landscape design process. These are challenging materials because of their living nature. Materials that show temporal changes during their lifetime (like changes of length, width and shape) and during annual seasons (like blossoming and fruitening periods and seasonal characteristics of deciduous trees). However like GAZVODA (2002) stated "All of the above facts about planting maps are so common to the landscape architect, that we usually do not consider them as any special products". This is an interesting remark because in contrary to landscape ecology (BOLLINGER ET AL., 2006), designing forest management (BASKENT, 1996) and green maintenance (PINCETL, 2010) the temporal dimension of the design process seems of little interest according the results of literature research.
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