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INTRODUCTION TO LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE Provides context for everything that is built

LANDSCAPE Spaces are designed that are environmentally,

socially and aesthetically pleasing
is a section or expansion of a scenery, usually
extensive, that can be seen from a single view point. Concerns:
- natural environment that can be designed by - Planning and design of land and water for use by
nature as well as by people society
- includes man-made and natural landforms
- it is everywhere and anywhere outdoor Planning:
- Futuristic approach land
- Land is regarded as a source to be considered in
relation to demand and predicted needs of society
and its values

Design:
-qualitative and function arrangement of parcels of
land set aside in the planning process for some
specific social purpose such as housing educations
LANDSCAPING or recreation
Planning and Design suggest man-made or man
is an activity that modifies of an area of a land regulated landscapes.

Involves the process of making a piece of land attractive

by:
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
• Altering the existing design
• Adding ornamental features is a separate field of Architecture
• Planting trees, shrubs, etc.
Republic Act 9053, the Philippine Landscape
• Providing various amenities
Architecture Act , was signed in 2001 recognizing
• Creating privacy, comfort, beauty and ease of
the full status of Landscape Architecture as a new
maintenance
profession. Graduates of Landscape Architecture
will therefore have to take the licensure
• In the 18th century England, landscaping was
examination given by the Professional Regulation
considered as form of art equal to painting,
Commission.
literature, music , etc.
Like Interior Design, it cease to remain a
• Considered a form of artistic expression
specialization of building architects. Graduates of
• Involves shaping and managing physical world and Architecture and related courses may however opt
the natural system to take this program as a second profession.

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE HAS A MORE BROAD

SCOPE THAN MERE GARDEN DESIGN.
• art and science designing an outdoor and indoor
public areas, landmarks, and structures to achieve
environmental, social behavioral, or aesthetic
outcomes.
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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE • Selection of components, materials and plants and

The profession has responded to a national their combination as solutions to limited and well
expansion of actions: defined problems; paving steps, fountain, etc.
• To protect and improve environmental quality and - planting design on board macro scale – project –
resources based
• The continuing process of urbanization, - indoor/ outdoor relationship (circulatory
industrialization, and land development elements
• The concentration of population in metropolitan -material designation
area
• The need to conserve energy
LANDSCAPE DESIGN AND SITE PLANNING
ALL REQUIRE FRESH CONCEPTS OF OPEN SPACE
Provides design services and prepares detailed layouts for
AND LAND USE
a wide variety of projects including but not limited to:
COMPONENTS OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE • Open space
• Housing projects
1. LAND ASSESSMENT AND LAND PLANNING
• Residential areas
(Environmental Planning)
• School grounds, university and college campuses
• Concerned with regional scale land use,
• Urban parks
environmental impact predictions
• Campground as well as facilities within national
• Concerned with systematic evaluation of large
parks
areas of land in terms of land’s suitability or
• Downtown shopping malls
capability for any likely future use
• Street system
• Usually involves a team of specialist;
• Industrial parks
environmental planner/ lawyer/ architect/
• Waterfront projects
landscape architecrt/ urban planner
➢ The selection of land suitable for urbanization
should depend in an assessment of its fragility IMPORTANCE
and its value for other uses. 1. Helps combat toxicity and other environmental issues
2. Offers customizable and sustainable development
2. SITE PLANNING
avenues
• The creation of environments that satisfy the
3. Innovative Solutions of Natural Environments
functional needs of the project while remaining
4. Weather Control
sensitive to local site conditions
5. Outdoor Public Recreation
• Concerned analysis of site
6. Psycho-Social Benefits for Humans
- Functional relational relationship
7. Therapeutic Final Products
ex. Subdivision plan
- resources
- site structure relationship
- land use relationship
ex. Nature park; open space
3. LANDSCAPE DESIGN
• The site planning and the detailed design for
specific projects
• Seeks to improve the quality of the landscape,
producing tangible forms with structures and with
plants whose growth results in changing
appearances with the seasons and passage of time
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ELEMENTS OF LANDSCAPE DESIGN 4. TEXTURE

• It is the touch of visual surface of the plants and
1. COLOR
hardscape in our design
• It is the center part of design. Color bring life and
• Influence overall ambiance of the garden
help to create the mood.
PROPERTIES OF TEXTURE
• Adds vibrancy, depth, and visual intrigue
• affects the perception of distance and scale
PROPERTIES OF TEXTURE
• can affect emotions, spatial perception, light
COARSE TEXTURE
quality, balance, and emphasis
FINE TEXTURE
MEDIUM TEXTURE
2. LINE
• used to control movement, such as a walkway,
5. VISUAL WEIGHT
path or flower bed.
• refers to the visual size of an object or group of
• can highlight a design feature like a pond, pool or
objects, such as a planting bed, house, patio, or
fire pit.
individual plants
• garden can also establish patterns, define spaces,
• is the concept that combinations of certain
sculpt forms, and unify themes within a landscape
features have more importance in the composition
PROPERTIES OF LINE
based on mass and contrast
• determines how people respond to the landscape,
both emotionally and physically
PRINCIPLES OF LANDSCAPE DESIGN
STRAIGHT LINES
CURVED LINES
1. BALANCE
VERTICAL LINES
• It ensures that colors are in check, the scale of the plants
HORIZONTAL LINES
is in proportion , the shape of the plants work and the
texture of the plants compliment the design .
3. FORM
• It is the shape of plants in our design
TWO TYPES
• Hardscape forms can be in various heights and
SYMMETRICAL
shapes
- occurs when two sides of the landscape are identical
PROPERTIES OF FORM
mirror images of each other.
• people can often recognize and identify a feature
based on an outline or silhouette.
ASYMMETRICAL
- occurs when the two sides of the landscape use different
➢ GEMOETRIC FORMS
elements and objects with differing weights but overall,
• CIRCULAR FORMS
the total visual weights of each side are similar.
• SQUARE FORMS
• IRREGULAR FORMS
2. FOCALIZATION
➢ NATURALISTIC FORMS
• Focalization is created as a visual break in the sequence
• MEANDERING LINES
and flow of the landscape.
• ORGANIC EDGES
• The focal point is the point or area of the landscape that
• FRAGMENTED EDGES
attracts the viewer’s eyes.
➢ PLANT FORMS
➢ TREE FORMS
➢ SHRUB FORMS
➢ GROUNDCOVER FORMS
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3. UNITY
• all the separate parts of the landscape work
together to create a great total design
UNITY BY DOMINANCE
UNITY BY INTERCONNECTION
UNITY OF THREE
UNITY BY SIMPLICITY

4. PROPORTION
• refers to the size relationship of all the features in the
landscape. This includes vertical, horizontal and special
relationships
RELATIVE PROPORTION
ABSOLTUE PROPORTION
PROPORTION IN PLANTS
PROPORTION IN HARDSCAPE
PROPORTION IN VOIDS

5. ORDER
• refers to the organization and balance in a landscape.

6. REPETITION
• repeated use of elements or features
• The goal is to create predictable and familiar
patterns and sequences in the landscape.
ALTERNATION
GRADATION