1. LANDSCAPE DESIGN Honored for being asked to teach.
Not a lot of experience as a teacher.
Interrupt if you have questions.
I will try to go over:
1. Design Elements and Principles
2. Preparing a Base Plan
3. The Design Process
4. Composition

2. LANDSCAPE DESIGN
The art of organizing and enriching outdoor space through the placement of plants and structures in an agreeable and useful relationship to enhance the natural environment.
Landscape Design Includes
creating a plan to make the best use of space available in the most attractive way.
shaping the land to make the most of the site’s natural features.
designing such features as fences, walls, and patios, and
selecting and growing the plants that best fit the design.
Definition on Slide

3. DESIGN ELEMENTS AND PRINCIPLES
Color
Line
Shape
Form
Texture
Space
Odor
PRINCIPLES
Scale
Balance
Unity
Simplicity
Rhythm/Repetition
Harmony
Accent/Dominance
Space Dividers/Transitions
Contrast
The basic building blocks of the design process.
Used consciously and sub-consciously.
Need to focus on using them consciously and to achieve desired results.
Elements - Basic building blocks of design.
Principles - The relationships between elements in a landscape design and also between the landscape design and its surroundings.

4. ColorWarm Colored Garden
Colors used will be based quite a bit on individual taste.
Colors can cause different feelings (calming/soothing, exciting).
Dark colors get hot to the touch.
Plants against brick wall, dark patio.
Light colors reflect heat and light.
Glare around a pool from white concrete.

5. Cool Colored Garden
Pastels, like pinks, blues, purples. Creates a calm feeling.

6. Monochromatic Gardens
It is important to use textual contrast (plants with very different flower forms) when composing a monochromatic garden. Conversely, when working with flower forms, it is important to use contrasting colors, otherwise the plants will all look the same.

7. Color
There are endless color combinations. All the secondary colors are made up of the primary colors.
Warm vs. Cool
Warm - Red, Orange, Yellow
Cool – Pink, Purple, Blue, Green
Monochromatic is one alternative.

9. Direct Complementary

10. Split Complementary

12. Contrast
Contrast of textures (size and shape) and also forms (upright and pointed vs rounded).

13. Bold contrast. Should be used sparingly however.

14. Contrast Form, color or texture can be emphasized through contrast.
Contrasting course texture of the drift wood with the smooth texture of the glass.

15. Line Lines can be formed where materials meet - edges.
Lines can be decoration.
Sight lines are important in garden design. This is usually where an important focal point exists to draw the eye or where a focal point can logically be placed because the eye is already there.

16. Shape 2-D On the planes. 1. Ground Plane 2. Vertical Planes
3. Overhead Plane

17. Line Lines can be bold and strong or uncertain and wavering.
Bed edges look better when smooth.

18. Formal garden. Straight lines and mirror images.

19. Space
3-D Negative Area
Defined by the planes in some way. This definition is not always what you might think of as walls, floor, ceiling. Spaces have size and form.
Traffic whizzing by can act as a wall to a space. Tree canopies can be a ceiling. A raised deck can be a self-limiting space.
When designing spaces, think of the type of indoor space would be adequate for the use and try to translate this to outdoor space. ie. Room size for outdoor cooking and dining.

20. Scale How the size of design features relate to the size of the space.
How the size of design features relate to each other.

21. Scale Human scale is a familiar point of departure.
This fountain is meant to be viewed by people while walking, standing or sitting.

22. Balance
Informal vs Formal Balance.

23. Balance – Asymmetrical
Still Balanced – just not the same on both sides (blood good maple and grasses balance the pergola).
A design can be asymmetrical and unbalanced.

24. Simplicity Before and after Atlantic Ave. photos.
EDAW Landscape Architects

25. Simplicity A much cleaner design Less distraction
Easier to focus on important elements
*Trees also act as a barrier between vehicles and pedestrians

26. Harmony

28. Dividers/Transitions

29. Accent/Dominance

30. Dividers/Transitions