Indoor plants: Their application and design in shopping malls : This dissertation has been completed in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Diploma in Landscape Architecture, Lincoln College

Abstract

This dissertation aims to equip the Landscape Architect with a fundamental knowledge of the use of plant material in the totally artificial environment of shopping malls. It is divided into two parts:

Part one provides the technical knowledge necessary to assure plant survival indoors. It illustrates the problems and possibilities of each technical factor and how best they can be manipulated to create an ideal habitat for plant material.

Part two considers plant use within the broader design of a shopping mall. By surveying two Christchurch malls: The Shades and Merivale, the effectiveness of the technical factors used in each case is analysed and problems and possibilities pointed out, concluding with the success or failure of each mall in terms of whether the planting design has achieved the 'order' Simmonds declares to be the ultimate principle of Landscape Architecture.