How to present the regional agricultural elements from the perspective of landscape in urban context? a case study of Huzhou east station square in China

Preserving traditional agriculture and sustaining farming culture are key challenges facing urban life today. Landscape presentation offers a potential solution by extracting its landscape features based on a deeper excavation of its underlying connotations and historical developmental trajectories. This study aims to delve into the rich connotations of Huzhou’s agricultural elements, extract the design elements of the landscape, and use landscape as a medium to showcase Huzhou’s agricultural culture, thereby facilitating its preservation and inheritance. This study takes Huzhou East Station Square in China as a case study. After mining the content of local agricultural elements, the landscape design elements are extracted and the landscape is presented in the form of sensory experiences. The results show that Huzhou is rich in agricultural landscape elements, which can be categorized into materialized type, spiritualized type, living type and artistic type for landscape presentation. According to the different ways of sensory experiences and activity types, the greenspace of station square is divided into four landscape theme areas: visual experience area, auditory experience area, tactile experience area and multi-sensory experience area. This study innovatively analyzes the agricultural elements from the perspectives of landscape characteristics and constituent elements, structuring and rationalizing a more scientific framework for presenting agricultural elements in the urban landscape. The “Source-Form-Sensation” mapping model was constructed and validated in this study. The landscape presentation of agricultural elements enriches the theoretical system of traditional agricultural conservation and inheritance.