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    03/08/2019

    Basic
    Landscape
    design
    Principles

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    I.P SANTOS
    Father of Philippine Landscape
    Architecture

    LANDSCAPE
    ARCHITECTURE

    – is the design of outdoor areas, landmarks, and structures to


    achieve environmental, social-behavioural, or aesthetic
    outcomes.
    – is a multi-disciplinary field, incorporating aspects
    of botany, horticulture, the fine arts, architecture, industrial
    design, soil sciences, environmental
    psychology, geography, ecology, and civil engineering.

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    SITE DEVELOPMENT
    CONSIDERATIONS

    – Excavation and Grading


    – Slope
    – Steps
    – Lawn and Seeding Area
    – Parking
    – Site Drainage
    – Site Furnishing
    – Landscape and Planting

    Basic Principles

    – Unity
    – Balance
    – Transition
    – Focalization
    – Proportion
    – Rhythm
    – Repetition
    – Simplicity

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    Unity

    – The effective use of components in a


    design to express a main idea through
    consistent style.

    Balance

    – Refers to the equilibrium of


    visual attraction.

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    Transition

    – Can be obtained by the


    arrangement of objects with
    varying textures, forms, or sizes in
    a logical sequential order.

    Focalization

    – The leading of visual


    observation toward a feature
    by placement of this feature at
    the vanishing point between
    radial or approaching lines.

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    Proportion

    – The size of parts of the design


    in relation to each other and to
    the design as a whole.

    Rhythm

    – is a patterned repetition of a
    design principle at regular or
    irregular intervals. Rhythm of
    form, color, or texture intensifies
    the plant composition.

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    Simplicity

    – It goes hand-in-hand with


    repetition and can be achieved
    by eliminating of unnecessary
    details.
    – The adage: less is more.

    Repetition

    – is the placement of the same


    or similar form, texture, or
    color over and over again.

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    SOFTSCAPE

    – comprises the animate (living), horticultural


    elements of landscape design. More simply put, it
    refers to the plants. Softscape elements are
    complemented by hardscape elements,

    Elements of Planting

    – Trees
    – Shrubs
    – Flowering Plants
    – Lawn
    – Fern

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    Deciduous Tree

    – Are trees that drop their leaves for part


    of the year. They are found in temperate
    and tropical climates all over the world.
    Deciduous trees have broad flat leaves
    that catch a lot of light and require a
    great amount of water.

    MOLAVE ILANG ILANG

    Conifers
     a cone-bearer. Trees that are conifers
    reproduce by forming a cone rather than a
    flower as a container for their seeds.
     provide important habitat and shelter for many
    animal species.

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    Palms

     They are the only members of the


    family Arecaceae, which is the only
    family in the order Arecales. most of
    them living in tropical, subtropical, and
    warm temperate climates.

    HARDSCAPE

    The term hard landscape is used by practitioners


    of landscape architecture and garden design to
    describe the construction materials which are
    used to improve a landscape by design.
    Consist of the inanimate elements of landscaping,
    especially any masonry work or woodwork.

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    HARDSCAPE ELEMENTS

    – Stone Walls
    – Retaining Walls
    – Wooden decks
    – Gazebo
    – Trellis, Pergola, Arbors
    – Paved Walkways, Pathways
    – Bollards
    – Sculptures

    Garden

    – is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the display, cultivation,
    or enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature.

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    Informal garden Formal gardens
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    Zen garden

    Parks

    – Planned outdoor space, usually of a large size, often for


    public use.

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