Landscape Plans

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Landscape Plans

• By Johnny M. Jessup
• Agriculture Teacher/FFA Advisor

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Sequential Plans

• Types of Sequential Plans
• Functional Diagrams
• Preliminary Designs
• Final Plans
• Each is increasingly more specific
  and detailed.

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Functional Diagrams

• They begin the arrangement of the client's
  program on the site.
• Are called bubble diagrams because.
• They use loosely drawn freeform shapes to
  represent areas or shapes.
• Help the designer make decisions concerning
  layout and sizes and the use of each area.

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Functional Diagrams
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Preliminary Designs

• They break the bubbles to show first draft
  vision of how each landscape area will be shaped.

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Preliminary Designs

• The landscape is given its.
• Form.
• Type of materials to be used.
• Application of landscape design principles.
• Are simple without real details, but.
• The horizontal vertical relationships between
  objects and areas are now included.

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Preliminary Designs
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Preliminary Designs

• A number of preliminary designs may be shown to a
  client before the final plans are made.

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Final Plans

• Use suggestions reactions of the client to make
  a master drawing that is graphically detailed
  completely specific in its intent for the
  landscape.

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Final Plans

• They include.
• Precisely identified plants other materials.
• Paving patterns.
• Other specific detailed information such as
  construction drawings for the landscape
  contractor subcontractors.

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Final Plans

• Graphics are designed to impress.

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Landscape Plans

• Computer assisted or drawing board.

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Graphics

• Is the lettering numbers.
• Types include.
• Free-hand lettering
• Mechanical
• Computer

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Landscape Principles Procedures
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Principles of Design

• Balance
• Materials are distributed evenly on opposite
  sides of a central axis.
• There are 3 types of balance
• Symmetric
• Asymmetric
• Proximal/Distal

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Types of Balance

• Symmetric
• One side is a reflective mirror image of the
  opposite side.
• Most formal type of balance.

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Types of Balance

• Asymmetric
• Each side has as much interest as the other, but
  is not a duplicate of the other side.

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Types of Balance

• Proximal/Distal
• Balances right and left as well as near and far.

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Balance

• Macro-Range
• The viewer sees the landscape from the most
  distant vantage point.
• Closer Range
• The views from other locations not as distant.

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Principles of Design

• Focalization of Interest
• Selects positions visually strong items in the
  landscape composition to create focal points.
• Draws the eye of the viewer to one major feature
  in each use area such as a corner building.

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Principles of Design

• Simplicity
• Seeks to make viewers comfortable within the
  landscape.
• Excludes any unnecessary changes in.
• Shape
• Color
• Direction
• Etc.

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Principles of Design

• Rhythm Line
• Repeating something at a standard interval or
  pattern creates rhythm.
• Lines establish the shape form of landscape.

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Rhythm Line

• Replicating strong existing lines such as the
  lines of the house or pool.
• Functions of line plantings include.
• Foundation plantings.
• Block a view.
• Frame a View.
• Provide Privacy

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Principles of Design

• Proportion
• The size relationships between all the features
  of the landscape including vertical, horizontal,
  and spatial relationships.

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Proportion

• Maintains proper proportional relationships in a
  landscape between.
• Buildings people.
• Buildings plants.
• Plants people.
• Plants plants.
• Masses soils.

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Principles of Design

• Unity
• All the separate parts contribute to the creation
  of the total design.

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Unity

• Ties together the individual parts of each use
  area by.
• Repeating prominent colors.
• Repeating construction materials.
• Continue interior design themes to
  outdoor rooms.
• Repeat plant species.
• Raise patios, decks, and porches to door level.

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Landscape Process

• Process is a sequence of steps to reach a goal.

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Landscape Process

• Project development process goes from.
• Need or objectives.
• Design process.
• Accepting the design.
• Contracting subcontracting.
• Actual landscaping.
• Acceptance.
• Billing payment.

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Landscape Process

• Project maintenance process starts with.
• Need or desire.
• Moves to selecting landscape
  maintenance company.
• (They assess the needs presents a proposal.)
• If proposal is accepted.
• Company schedules does work then bills
  the customer.

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Landscape Process

• Design process includes.
• Site analysis
• Program analysis

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Designed By

• Johnny M. Jessup FFA Advisor
• Hobbton High School