Mapping Spaces: Three-Dimensional Visualisation and Design in Landscape Architecture

Landscape architecture is a complex, multi-faceted field whose practitioners design the spaces in which we live. Landscape modelers now utilise CAD, GIS, and a range of related software to create digital models and produce visualisations of landscapes. Three-dimensional scanning as a visualisation tool involving techniques such as photogrammetry, LiDAR (light detection and ranging), drone-based photography, and other advanced imaging technologies have greatly extended the possibilities for representation and design. In the picture theory of language in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus , Ludwig Wittgenstein presented a logic of depiction that described a mapping relation captured by the law of projection. In this paper, I explore mapping space, using case studies in modern landscape architecture to demonstrate how Wittgenstein’s law of projection illuminates the principles involved in visualisation in contemporary landscape architecture.

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Kelly Hamilton

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Publication date: July 2017

Publication date (Print): July 2017

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Notre Dame, IN, USA

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2017.56

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Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2017)

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 11 – 13 July 2017

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Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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[1] P. ArgawalL. ArgeA. Danner 2017 From Point Cloud to Grid DEM: A Scalable Approach. https://users.cs.duke.edu/~pankai/publications/ 5 April 2017

[2] B. Barth 2017 Infinite Mapping. Landscape Architecture Magazine: The Magazine of the American Society of Landscape Architects 10 January

[3] S. M. ErvinH. H. Hasbrouck 2001 Landscape Modeling. McGraw Hill New York

[4] K. Hamilton 2013 Mapping Motion: The Principles of Motion Capture and the Law of Projection K. NgJ. P. BowenS. McDaid EVA London 2013: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts London, UK 29-31 July 2013 239 245 British Computer Society London

[5] K. Hamilton 2001 Wittgenstein and the Mind’s Eye J. Klagge Wittgenstein: Biography and Philosophy. Cambridge University Press Cambridge

[6] J. C. McGloneG. LeeY. G. George 2013 Manual of Photogrammetry. American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Bethesda Maryland

[7] Rachel S. OpitzDavid C. Cowley 2013 Interpreting Archaeological Topography: 3D Data, Visualization and Observation. Oxbow Oxford

[8] G. H. Von Wright 1954 Wittgenstein: A Memoir. Oxford University Press Oxford

[9] L. Wittgenstein 1961 Notebooks 1914-1916 G. E. M. AnscombeG. H. von Wright Basil Blackwell Oxford

[10] L. Wittgenstein 1922/2010 Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Routledge London

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