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ELEMENTS AND PRINCIPLES OF LANDSCAPE DESIGN

-seeks to create balance between living and natural environment

-a landscape to a designer is like a slab or marble to a sculptor or insides of a home to

a interior decorator

-a landscape is the canvas on which the landscape designer crafts his or her master

piece

ELEMENTS OF LANDSCAPE DESIGN

- COLOR

= Used to convey emotion

= HUE or CHROMA refers to the relative purity of strength

= VALUE determines how light or dark the color

= INTEnSITY refers to how bright or dull the color is

- LINE

= Creates a order by directing eye movement or flow. Lines in a landscape

design gives the eye directions about where to look

= May used to draw attention to an object

= divide a space

- FORM

= defines the shape and structure of an object

= indicates shapes of plants

- TEXTURE

= is the surface of an object

= is how you fell when you touch it

- SCALE

= refers to the size of an object in relation to its surrounding

PRINCIPLES OF LANDSCAPE DESIGN

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- UNITY

= refers to the use of elements to create harmony and consistency with the

main theme or idea of the landscape design.

= Gives design a sense of oneness and interconnection.

- BALANCE

= gives the design a sense of equilibrium and symmetry in visual attration

- PROPORTION

= describe the size relationship between parts of the landscape design or

between a part of the design and design as a whole

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- FOCALIZATION OR EMPHASIS

= directs visual attention to a point of interest or prominent part of lanscape

design

- SEQUENCE OR TRANSITION

= creats visual movement in landscape design

= anchieved by the gradual progression of texture, form, size, or color

- RHYTHM

= creates a feeling of motion which leads the eye from one part of the

landscape deisign to another part.

- REPETITION

= is the repeated use of objects or elements with identical shape form,

texture, or color

Arch. Denni L. Estacio