Planting DesignLARC 322

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Planting Design-LARC 322

• COURSE DESCRIPTION
• Introduction to Planting Design explores plants
  as a design medium that is unlike any other in
  that it alone is a dynamic medium, ever changing
  and growing.
• The course advocates developing a design
  partnership with the medium that will ensure
  enriched designers perspectives of its potential
  to create harmonious, dynamic places that
  continue to engage as they evolve through time.
• In order to accomplish this we will examine such
  aspects of the design medium as reading the
  landscape, spatial formation, character
  building, plant qualities and design function.

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Course goals

• Students will begin to develop a partnership with
  plants and appreciate the unique character of
  individual plants.
• Using the dynamic medium of plants, students will
  develop a designers tool kit that will enable
  the creation of appropriate, functional, and
  aesthetically pleasing spaces.

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Course objectives

• Discover new ways to see" and to gain a new
  vocabulary for reading the landscape that expands
  your spatial intelligence, your ability to see
  and analyze existing spaces and to conceive the
  creation of new spaces with plants to convey
  conceptual design in simple graphic terms.
• Develop a conceptual evaluation of plants and
  their environs that will facilitate design
  creation.
• Provide opportunities to portray thoughts and
  ideas in creative format.
• Appreciate multiple facets of the medium through
  the observation and documentation of plants and
  their communities.
• Introduce the planting design process.
• Enjoy this exciting medium.

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Course format

• Planting Design is designed as a
  lecture/discussion/field study course. We will
  meet twice a week in Gould 322 for slide
  presentations, interactive lectures and in-class
  exercises.
• Once a week we will meet for a field study on the
  campus environs that will serve as our
  laboratory. In the field you will begin to
  develop a personal relationship with the plants
  that you encounter and a documentation of these
  plants for your future reference.
• Your field study notebook, your Plant Journal, is
  a required course deliverable that is dedicated
  solely to field notes, sketches and design
  exercises that will be reviewed periodically.

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• Unique characteristics of plants as a design
  medium
• Plants are alive
• Plants exist in essentially infinite variety

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Human-plant connections

• Plants and humans share an inherent
• desire to relate to the environment.
• Macro-micro scales of connectivity
• are revealed in landscape patterns.
• We have a lot in common, life.
• Proven therapeutic benefits are gifts
• from the relationship.

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Reading the landscape

• Cultivate landscape reading skills.
• Enlarge landscape vocabulary.
• Strengthen observational skills.
• Shift perspectives for an enhanced view.

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2D
3D
Control management- viewpoint
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Perspectives
Details
Distance
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Goals for using plants as a design medium

• To create
• a sense of place
• A sense of time
• A sense of nature
• A sense of order
• A vision of paradise

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Regionalism and planting design
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The penalty of an ecological education is that
one is condemned to live in a world of wounds.
Aldo Leopold The penalty of a design
education is that one is condemned to live in a
world of ignorance and folly. Iain
Robertson The designers consolation is found
is seeing the possibilities
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Planting design principle In order get there,
you must first know where you are.
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• Eight dimensions of Planting Design
• Focal point
• Manipulation of line on two dimensional plane
• Manipulation of three dimensional objects in
  space
• Movement through space
• Growth of objects to change space
• Seasonal change of objects
• Affects of light on objects in space
• Empathetic response to plants

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• Week one Plant Journal assignment
• Visit nearby Washington Park Arboretum.
• Select three coniferous trees (one large, one
  medium,
• and one small) from the Arboretum Collection to
  document
• in your plant journal.
• For each specimen note the following
• Botanical and common names
• Habit
• Ecology
• Horticultural requirements
• Hardiness zone
• Character
• Quality
• Personality
• Sketch
• Photo optional