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Title: Design Principles and Elements


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Design Principles and Elements
  • Unit 2204 Landscape Design

2
What elements will a well planned landscape
address?
  • Traffic flow
  • Environmental Protection
  • Continuity
  • Aesthetics
  • Land Value

3
Landscape Types
  • Commercial
  • Balance between practicality function
  • Residential
  • Public Area
  • Service Area
  • Private Area

4
Principles of Landscape Design
  • Unity
  • Scale
  • Proportion
  • Balance
  • Repetition
  • Contrast
  • Dominance or Emphasis
  • Transition

5
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

6
SCALE
  • Proportion is pleasing relationship to whole
    design
  • Keeps parts from looking too large or small

7
PROPORTION
  • Size in units of materials related to each other
  • Use constant scale

8
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

9
Symmetrical Balance
10
Asymmetrical Balance
11
Repetition
  • Repeated use of color or plant material to
    emphasize continuity

12
Contrast
  • Use texture, scale, color and size to emphasize
    point of interest

13
Emphasis
  • Feature point or theme for site

14
Transition
  • Blending of texture, scale or color without sharp
    contrast

15
Whats missing from this Base Plan?
16
House 2
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House 3
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House 4
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House 5
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