Environmental design

It is difficult to dig out topics regarding tropical architecture. Therefore, environmental design is more or less in regards to tropical architecture in general. Environmental design is an interesting subject to be raised in any architectural design involved. Is another basic design issue to be mastered.
This is what I can find in wikipedia:-
"Environmental design refers to taking environmental concerns into consideration in the design process.
"Environmental design" in the more established (and, perhaps, more old-fashioned) sense has to do with developing physical, spatial environments, whether interior or exterior, to meet one or more esthetic or day-to-day functional needs, or to create a specific sort of experience - the focus being the human-designed environment." more to read...
Some interesting link here regarding Japanese garden.
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