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Integrating Kansei Engineering into Sustainable Landscape Design: An Empirical Study on Ornamental Pools
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Emotional design is increasingly recognised within landscape architecture, particularly in the context of sustainable and user-centred environments; however, systematic and data-driven approaches that translate users’ emotional responses into concrete design parameters remain limited. To address this gap, the aim of this study is to systematically integrate users’ emotional expectations into landscape design by applying Kansei Engineering, using ornamental pools as a case study. A semantic differential survey was conducted with 91 participants, including landscape design students and experts. The experimental stimuli were developed based on a Taguchi L8 orthogonal array, enabling the systematic evaluation of five design factors (depth, interior surface colour, surface planting, form, and motion) across eight configurations. The collected data were analysed using the Taguchi method and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) to identify optimal design combinations and quantify the relative influence of each factor. The results reveal that surface planting is the dominant factor influencing perceptions such as captivating and legible, while motion plays a key role in shaping mental restoration. The optimal configuration, characterised by shallow depth, light colour, vegetation, natural form, and dynamic water, evoked strong positive responses including captivating, aesthetically pleasing, and satisfying. This study proposes a data-driven framework for linking emotional perception with landscape design variables, contributing to the development of more socially and psychologically sustainable, user-centred, and emotionally responsive landscape environments.
Keywords:
emotional design
Kansei engineering
sustainable landscape design
ornamental pools
emotional well-being
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