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Week 4 - Landscapearchitecture

Landscaping involves the design of outdoor areas to achieve environmental, social, and aesthetic goals. It involves investigating existing conditions and processes in the landscape. A landscape architect designs areas like parks, gardens, housing developments, and transportation corridors. Careful landscape planning considers a property's features, character, desired effects, and style. It may take years to achieve landscape goals through planting and construction.

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Week 4 - Landscapearchitecture

Landscaping involves the design of outdoor areas to achieve environmental, social, and aesthetic goals. It involves investigating existing conditions and processes in the landscape. A landscape architect designs areas like parks, gardens, housing developments, and transportation corridors. Careful landscape planning considers a property's features, character, desired effects, and style. It may take years to achieve landscape goals through planting and construction.

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landscape architecture…

Vishvendu Pandey
1February 2014
B.Arch 4th Year
What is Landscaping?

 Landscaping is the design of outdoor


public areas, landmarks, and structures to
achieve environmental, social-behavioral,
or aesthetic outcomes.
 Landscaping provides colours to the
building, and it helps to provide the
balance in the height of the building
visually. It also helps to save energy by
providing the shadow to the building.
 It involves the systematic investigation of existing social,
ecological, and geological conditions and processes in the
landscape. The scope of the profession includes: urban
design; site planning; storm water management,
parks and recreation planning.
 A practitioner in the profession of landscape architecture
is called a landscape architect.
FIELDS OF ACTIVITY
 The planning, form, scale and siting of new developments
 Storm water management including rain gardens, green
roofs, groundwater recharge, and treatment wetlands
 Campus and site design for public institutions and
government facilities
 Parks, botanical gardens, greenways, and nature preserves
 Recreation facilities; i.e.: playgrounds, golf courses, theme
parks and sports facilities
 Housing areas, industrial parks and commercial
developments
 Estate and residence landscape master planning and design
 Highways, transportation structures, bridges, and transit
corridors
 Urban design, town and city squares, waterfronts,
pedestrian schemes, and parking lots
 Large to small urban renewal planning and design.
 Landscape Managers uses their knowledgee of landscape
process to advise on the long-term care and
development of Landscape. They often work in
fostering, nature conservation and agriculture.
 The area around your home is an important part of your
living environment. Attractively and functionally
landscaped, it can add to your enjoyment of your home.
Landscaping can also increase property value, invite
wildlife into your yard and conserve energy.
 Successful landscaping does not just happen. It requires
careful planning and some knowledge of landscape
design. You have to consider your home’s architectural
features, neighborhood landscape character, the effects
you want to create, to your outdoor living space.
 It may take several years of planting and construction to
achieve your goals, but the first step is planning and
designing what you want to end up with
Landscape Style Options
 In the past, most home landscapes were either formal
or informal.
 Formal designs are geometric and symmetrical, with
plants and landscape structures precisely spaced and
arranged. Informal designs make use of more natural-
appearing, irregularly placed plants and structures.
 Today, more people want their home landscape to meet
physical and social needs. Partly as a result of the
environmental movement, which fostered a greater
appreciation for nature, we tend to be more interested
in informal or naturalistic designs.
 Geometric-Structural – geometric structure is primary
and plants play a minor role.
 Geometric-Natural – structure dominates, but plants
and other natural elements play an important, perhaps
nearly equal role.
 Natural-Structural – plants, rocks, water and earth
forms dominate, but there is a clear sense of geometric
arrangement.
 Natural – natural elements and materials dominate and
there is no obvious human-determined form or
structure.
 As you go through the planning and design steps that
follow, you should have in mind which of these general
design styles you want to achieve.
Landscape Planning
 Too often, homeowners plant before they plan. Careful planning will
help you avoid errors that may interfere with your final landscape
design, such as improper plant selection or placement.
STEPS-
Step 1. Draw a Base Map
Step 2. Analyze your lot or farmstead
Step 3. Analyze how your Lot or Farmstead Relates to the Neighborhood
Step 4. Analyze your Needs
Step 5. Plan Outdoor “Use” Areas
Step 6. Make Use Area Sketches
Step 7. Putting It All Together
Selecting Landscape Plants
 There are 3 to consider in selecting plants :
 They are, in order you should consider them:
Plants Hardiness
Site Conditions
Suitability for you Landscape Design.
 All plants requires a certain sets of growing conditions.
The conditions your site offers will determine what
plants will grow there.
 Soil
 Sunlight
 Topography
 Pollution
Landscape Plans
Principles of Design

 Unity
 Balance
 Transition
 Proportion
 Rhythm and Line
 Focalization of Interest
 Repetition/Simplicity
Principles of Design
 • Unity - One of the basics of landscape design is creating
a central theme to build your outdoor plan upon. A
unified look is important to a beautiful landscape design.
 • Balance - The plants, walkways, and other features of
your outdoor plan should be laid out in an asymmetrical
design that complements the entire yard.
 • Transition - Changes in colors, plant styles, and
accessories will blend better with planned transitions to
slowly move into the new look.
 • Proportion - Plan a design that incorporates trees and
shrubs that are relative to the size of the people and
things around them.
Principles of Design
 • Rhythm - The patterns created with colors and lines
give the landscape design a natural rhythm that is
relaxing and enjoyable.
 • Focalization - With the use of lines, form, and
balance, you can develop a landscape design with
specific focal points to draw interest and turn heads.
 • Repetition - Repetition of these patterns and
rhythms, in just the right amount, gives your outdoor
design the perfect look without being overpowering.

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