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The document provides an introduction to landscape architecture, discussing key terms like landscaping and landscape. It outlines the importance of landscape architecture in areas like the environment, development, and mental health. The document also covers elements of design like color, line, form, texture, and scale, as well as principles of landscape like balance, focalization, unity, proportion, order, and repetition.

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Elec1 Elemntsandprinciples

The document provides an introduction to landscape architecture, discussing key terms like landscaping and landscape. It outlines the importance of landscape architecture in areas like the environment, development, and mental health. The document also covers elements of design like color, line, form, texture, and scale, as well as principles of landscape like balance, focalization, unity, proportion, order, and repetition.

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GE ELECTIVE 1- LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

INTRODUCTION TO LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

LANDSCAPE LANDSCAPING LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE


is a section or expansion of rural is a development of outdoor space art of designing an outdoor and in
scenery, usually extensive, that can to provide various amenities, priva door public areas, landmarks, and struct
be seen from a single view point. cy, comfort, beauty and ease of m ures to achieve environmental, social be
aintenance. havioral, or aesthetic outcomes.

IMPORTANCE OF LANDSCAPE
1. Helps combat toxicity and other environmental issues 4. Weather Control
2. Offers customizable and sustainable development 5. Outdoor Public Recreation
avenues 6. Psycho-Social Benefits for Humans
3. Innovative Solutions of Natural Environments 7. Therapeutic Final Products

ELEMENTS OF DESIGN

COLOR
• It is the center part of design. Color bring life
and help to create the mood.

LINE

• used to control movement, such as a walkway, • STRAIGHT LINES


can also highlight a design feature like a pond, • CURVED LINES
pool or fire pit. • VERTICAL LINES
• path or flower bed.
• HORIZONTAL LINES
GE ELECTIVE 1- LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
FORM

• It is the shape of plants in our design .

• CIRCULAR FORMS
• SQUARE FORMS
• IRREGULAR POLYGONS
• TREE FORM
• SHRUB FORM
• GORUNDCOVER FORM

TEXTURE

• It is the touch of visual surface of the plants


and hardscape in our design .
• COARSE TEXTURE
• FINE TEXTURE
• MEDIUM TEXTURE

SCALE

• It is the relationship between plants and your


design with rest of your property.
GE ELECTIVE 1- LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

PRINCIPLES OF LANDSCAPE

1. BALANCE 2. FOCALIZATION
• It ensures that colors are in check, the scale of the • Focalization is created as a visual break in the
plants is in proportion , the shape of the plants work sequence and flow of the landscape.
and the texture of the plants compliment the design . • The focal point is the point or area of the landscape
that attracts th viewer’s eyes.

TWO TYPES
• SYMMETRICAL
-It is more formal approach . 3. UNITY
-occurs when two sides of the landscape are • It is the elements that manages consistency and
identical mirror images of each other. repetition in our design. It can be achieved by
consistently using plants with similar color, scale,
form, texture and balance.

• ASYMMETRICAL
-It is more of a informal approach to our 4. PROPORTION
design • Proportion refers to the size of an object in relation
-occurs when the two sides of the landscape to other objects in the landscape.
use different elements and objects with
differing weights but overall, the total visual
weights of each side are similar.
GE ELECTIVE 1- LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
ORDER
• Order refers to the organization and balance in a
landscape.

REPETITION
• The goal of repetition is to create predictable and
familiar patterns and sequences in the landscape.

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