Design Principles and Elements

1. Design Principles and Elements Unit 2204 Landscape Design

2. What elements will a well planned landscape address? • Traffic flow • Environmental Protection • Continuity • Aesthetics • Land Value

3. Landscape Types • Commercial • Balance between practicality & function • Residential • Public Area • Service Area • Private Area

4. Unity Scale Proportion Balance Repetition Contrast Dominance or Emphasis Transition Principles of Landscape Design

5. UNITY • All parts inter-relate to the whole • Repeat colors/textures • Plant materials in groups of 3 • Magic of Three’s • 3 Musketeers • 3 Stooges • 3 Amigos

6. SCALE • Proportion is pleasing relationship to whole design • Keeps parts from looking too large or small

7. PROPORTION • Size in units of materials related to each other • Use constant scale

8. BALANCE • Visual relationship between elements of a landscape • Symmetrical Balance • Items of equal weight on each side • Asymmetrical Balance • Items with more weight on one side

9. Symmetrical Balance

10. Asymmetrical Balance

11. Repetition • Repeated use of color or plant material to emphasize continuity

12. Contrast • Use texture, scale, color and size to emphasize point of interest

13. Emphasis • Feature point or theme for site

14. Transition • Blending of texture, scale or color without sharp contrast

15. What’s missing from this Base Plan?

16. House #2

17. House #3

18. House #4

19. House #5