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Design Principles and Elements Unit 2204 Landscape Design

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Design Principles and Elements. Unit 2204 Landscape Design. What elements will a well planned landscape address?. Traffic flow Environmental Protection Continuity Aesthetics Land Value. Landscape Types. Commercial Balance between practicality & function Residential Public Area - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Page 1: Design Principles and Elements

Design Principles and Elements

Unit 2204 Landscape Design

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What elements will a well planned landscape

address? • Traffic flow• Environmental Protection• Continuity• Aesthetics• Land Value

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Landscape Types

• Commercial– Balance between practicality &

function

• Residential– Public Area– Service Area– Private Area

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Principles of Landscape Design

• Unity• Scale• Proportion• Balance

• Repetition• Contrast• Dominance or

Emphasis• Transition

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UNITY

• All parts inter-relate to the whole

• Repeat colors/textures• Plant materials in groups of 3

– Magic of Three’s•3 Musketeers•3 Stooges•3 Amigos

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SCALE

• Proportion is pleasing relationship to whole design

• Keeps parts from looking too large or small

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PROPORTION

• Size in units of materials related to each other

• Use constant scale

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BALANCE

• Visual relationship between elements of a landscape

• Symmetrical Balance– Items of equal weight on each

side

• Asymmetrical Balance– Items with more weight on one

side

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Symmetrical Balance

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Asymmetrical Balance

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Repetition

• Repeated use of color or plant material to emphasize continuity

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Contrast

• Use texture, scale, color and size to emphasize point of interest

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Emphasis

• Feature point or theme for site

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Transition

• Blending of texture, scale or color without sharp contrast

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What’s missing

from this

Base Plan?

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House #2

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House #3

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House #4

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House #5