Design Principles and Elements

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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 Threes
• 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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Whats 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